Alien Huddle
Martin Puryear · 1993–95 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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With its bulbous joined spheres made of pine and cedar, Alien Huddle reveals the close relationship between organic form and material that is emblematic of Martin Puryear's sculpture. A great breadth of aesthetic traditions informs his work, including modernist abstraction, Indigenous African crafts, boat building, and recent technology. Puryear brings these together to create a distinctive body of abstract work animated by cultural, social, and historical references. Puryear seamlessly attached red cedar planks to the pine core without metal fixtures, a skill attributed to his training in furniture making, joinery, and woodworking.
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Details
- Maker
- Martin Puryear (American, b. 1941)
- Date
- 1993–95
- Medium
- red cedar, pine
- Dimensions
- Overall: 134.6 x 162.5 x 134.6 cm (53 x 64 x 53 in.)
- Place of origin
- America
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro