Cremation Project with Corpus Wafers (Version 2)

Object Details

Artist

John Baldessari, American, b. National City, California, 1931–2020

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, to 27 October 2005

Gift of The Glenstone Foundation, Mitchell P. Rales, Founder, in honor of Ned Rifkin's tenure as Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2002-2005), 2005

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950," 24 October 2013-26 May 2014, fig. 6 (color), p. 112. Tour: MUSEE D'ART MODERNE GRAND-DUC JEAN, Luxembourg, 5 July-12 October; KUNSTHAUS GRAZ, Austria, 14 November-15 March 2015.

Published References

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 258, pp. 282-283.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of The Glenstone Foundation, Mitchell P. Rales, Founder, in honor of Ned Rifkin's tenure as Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2002-2005), 2005

1970

Accession Number

05.26

Type

Installation

Medium

Glass jar with plastic lid, cookies (with ashes), recipe card, original affidavit of publication, newspaper page, and 6 color photographs

Dimensions

jar: 6 high × 4 in. diam. (15.2 × 10.2 cm); cookies: approx. 3 in. diam. (7.6 cm) each; recipe card: 3 × 5 in. (7.6 × 12.7 cm); affadavit: 14 × 8 in. (35.6 × 20.3 cm); newspaper: 23 × 15 in. (58.4 × 38.1 cm); photos: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm) each

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Record ID

hmsg_05.26

Metadata Usage (text)

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GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2c3e730ea-1a23-4fb6-9b35-41e06d70d627