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Sean Scully

Heart of Darkness

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  • Heart of Darkness

    Oil on linen
    40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
    SSp82 03
    Art Institute of Chicago
    Public Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • Exhibitions

    "Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. June 20 – October 10, 2021., 2021

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  • Literature

    Exhibition Cat: ‘Sean Scully. Triptychs.’ Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex. England. Sisley Press 2013. Texts by: Simon Martin ‘Only Connect: On Sean Scully’s Triptychs’ and Sean Scully ‘Triptych’. English. Page 16. Colorplate. Book: Scully, Sean, “La Surface Peinte”, Daniel Lelong Editeur, Paris, 2008 (color illus.)Monograph: Poirier, 97, 99, plate 60 Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 112, 143, 144, 145 (colorplate), 152 Book review: Bonaventura, Paul. “Sean Scully” & “The Color of Time”, Modern Painters, Summer 2004, p. 137 Book: Barrett, Terry. “Interpreting Art”, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New York, 2003, p. 101, 102 (BW reproduction) Monograph: Hennig, Karin, “Sean Scully”, Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Weltkunst un Bruckmann (WB) Verlag, München, Ausgabe 54, Heft 15, 2. Quartel 2001, p. 4, 5 (color illus.) Periodical article: Tschechne, Martin. “Sean Scully. Strenge Form, grosse Gefühle”, art Das Kunstmagazin, July 1998, p. 23 (colorplate) Catalogue: Sardo, Delfim. “Oriente Station: Part of the Lisbon Intermodal Station”, Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP, 1998, p. 108 Catalogue: Smith, Alistair. “Sean Scully”, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 1994, p. 88 Periodical article: Carrier, David, “Piet Mondrian and Sean Scully. Two Political Artists”, Art Journal, 1991, pg 69 Periodical article: Bevan, Roger. “Abstract”, Antique and New Art, Winter 1990, p. 139 Periodical review: Carrier, David. “Spatial Relations. Sean Scully”, ArtInternational, Autumn 1989, p. 81 Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully Iona” Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, 2010. Texts by Richard Ingleby, “Iona”. English. Page 52. Periodical article: Cooke, Lynne. “Sean Scully”, Galeries Magazine, Aug/Sept 1989, p. 61 Periodical review: Bennett, Ian. “Sean Scully. Whitechapel London”, Flash Art, No. 147, Summer 1989, p. 157 (BW reproduction) Exhibition catalogue: “Sean Scully, Paintings & Works on Paper 1982-88”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, 1989, colorplate Exhibition Guide and Interview: Bonaventura, Paul, “Sean Scully, Paintings & Works on Paper 1982-88”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, 1989 (BW reproduction) Exhibition brochure: “Sean Scully”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1988 (cover) Exhibition catalogue: “Sean Scully”, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985, p. 33 Exhibition catalogue: “Contemporary Abstract Painting”, Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown, PA, Sept 12 - Oct 23, 1983 Periodical interview: Zimmer, William. “Heart of Darkness: New Stripe Paintings By And An Interview With Sean Scully”, Arts Magazine, Dec 1982, p. 82 (bw illus.) Sean Scully: Works from the 1980’s exhibition catalogue published by Czernin Verlag-Vienna, Austria, 2010, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland, Feb 5-Apr 1, 2010 and Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds,England, May 27-Aug. 8, 2010. Edited by Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, Leeds with essays by Tanja Pirsig-Marshall ‘I just try to make them be as much as they can be’ Works from the 1908’s, Arthur C. Danto ‘Sean Scully and the Art of Painting’ and Armin Zweite ‘To humanize abstract painting’ Reflections on Sean Scully’s “Stone Light.” Page 33 (colorplate 4) Monograph: “Sean Scully”, Editions Cercle d’Art, Paris, France, 2006. Edited by Philippe Monsel. French. page 12. Exhibition catalogue: Sean Scully Paintings, Jun. 7- Jul.13, 1997. Published by Manchester City Art Galleries, 1997. Curated by Tim Wilcox.Texts by Richard Gray ‘Foreword and Acknowledgements’, Mark Glazebrook ‘Sean Scully: Summarising Living and Painting’, Irving Sandler ‘Sean Scully Interview’. Page 14. (ill. 14) Monograph: “Sean Scully. Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings” Merrell Publishers, London, 2006. Texts by Sean Scully, Florence Ingleby, ed. English. Page 48. Exhibition catalogue: Sean Scully: The Catherine Paintings. Bielefeld, Germany Jul. 30- Sept. 24, 1995. Published by Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1995. Texts by Hans-Michael Herzog ‘The Catherine Paintings in Bielfeld’, Hans-Michael Herzog in conversation with Sean Scully ‘The Beauty of the Real’. (ENG, GER) Page 61. (Colorplate) Book: “The Color of Time: The Photographs of Sean Scully”. Published by Steidl, Gottingen, 2004. Essays by Arthur C. Danto “Photographs as Pivots and Peers in the Art of Sean Scully” and Mia Fineman “Between Making and Taking: The Photographs of Sean Scully”. Interview by Edward Lucie-Smith. Pg. 9 (Colorplate) Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully. Twenty Years, 1976-1995” High Museum of Art / Thames and Hudson, Atlanta, 1995. Texts by Ned Rifkin, Victoria Combalia, Lynne Cooke and Armin Zweite. Colorplate 16.