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Martin Puryear, Brunhilda
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Nov 4, 2007 – Jan 14, 2008
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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- Price
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$20
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On the heels of Richard Serra's steel behemoths comes MoMA's full-scale retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear, who works with wood using the same intensity and ingenuity Serra uses with metal. Equally monumental in size, Puryear's abstract sculptures eschew right angles for curving, ovoid forms that are particularly difficult to render in wood. Steeped in both American furniture and African crafts traditions, Puryear used a single tree to create the 36-foot-tall Ladder for Booker T. Washington, a mythical-looking ladder that tapers to a single inch wide at its apex. Sharp and Flat resembles a Trojan horse, while Brunhilde is an airy, rotund wooden lattice with a small peak that gives the sculpture a hint of anthropomorphism.
