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Sean Scully

The Moroccan

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  • The Moroccan

    Oil on canvas
    40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
    SSp82 19
    Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
    Public Collection: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

  • Exhibitions

    "Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. June 14 – September 10, 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. October 10, 1995 – January 7, 1996; Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland. May 23 – August 24, 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. September 19 – November 24, 1996., 1995

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    "Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. November 30, 2018 – June 2, 2019., 2018

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  • Literature

    Poirier, 97, 98, plate 62 Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 97 (colorplate), 98, 99 Periodical article: Higgins, Judith. “Sean Scully and the metamorphosis of the stripe”, ARTnews, Nov 1985, p. 110 Exhibition catalogue: “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture”, The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, May 17 - Aug 19, 1984, p. 286 (BW reproduction) Exhibition brochure: “Sean Scully. Recent Paintings”, William Beadleston Inc., New York, NY, Dec 1, 1982 – Jan 8, 1983 (Cover image) 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 17. Exhibition Cat. Sean Scully. Fundacio Joan Miro: July 28th - Sept 30, 2007.Thames and Hudson, 2007.pg. 51. Solo catalogue: “Sean Scully: Light of the South.” TF Editores, Madrid, 2012. © Texts by Maria Del Mar Villafranca Jimenez “Sean Scully at the Alhambra”, Kosme de Baranano “Scully: Light of the South”, Kelly Grovier “Peculiarly Close to God: The Mathematics of Scully”. Page 24. 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 32 (colorplate 3)