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Maesta

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  • Maesta

    Oil on linen
    40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
    SSp83 10
    Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Public Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2004)

  • Literature

    Book: C. Danto, Arthur, “The Philosophy of Arthur C. Danto’ Edited by Randall E Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn. Souther Illinois University Carbondale, Chicago, 2013. Page 135. Colorplate Book: Scully, Sean, “La Surface Peinte”, Daniel Lelong Editeur, Paris, 2008 (color illus.)Monograph: Poirier, 99, 100, 101, plate 73 Book (limited edition): “Sean Scully”, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2005, (color illus. 17) Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 118, 144, 146, 147 (colorplate) Periodical article: Scully, Sean. “On Mythology, Abstraction, and Mystery”, American Art, Smithosonian American Art Museum, Vol. 18, Number 3, Fall 2004, p. 85, 86 (colorplate)Newspaper article: Chesnais, Francois. “Asiatische Grippe oder weltweite Epidemie”, Le Monde diplomatique, Paris / die tageszeitung, Berlin, Feb 1998, p. 12 (colorplate) Catalogue: Smith, Alistair. “Sean Scully”, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 1994, p. 88 Exhibition catalogue: “Sean Scully”, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985, p. 12 (colorplate), 33 Exhibition catalogue: “Abstract Painting as Surface and Object”, curated by Judy K. Collischan Van Wagner, Hillwood Art Gallery, School of the Arts Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, Feb 13 - Mar 8, 1985, p 31 (colorplate), 32 Periodical article: Madoff, Steven Henry. “A New Generation of Abstract Painters”, ARTnews, Nov 1983, p 82, 83 (colorplate) Periodical review: Westfall, Stephen. “Sean Scully (at David McKee, Gallery, New York)” Arts Magazine, Nov 1983, p 35 (BW reproduction) 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 37(colorplate 8)