Sean Scully

Wall of Light Desert Day

Oil on linen
40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
SSp03 30
National Gallery of Australia
Public Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Purchased for the NGA in honour of Brian Kennedy, Director 1997-2004, with contributions from Members of the NGA Council and Foundation (2004)

Exhibitions

"Sean Scully. Recent Paintings," L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA. May 12 – June 30, 2006., 2006

"Sean Scully: Wall of Light," The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA. October 22, 2005 – January 8, 2006; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. February 12 – May 28, 2006; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. June 24 – September 3, 2006; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. September 25, 2006 – January 14, 2007. Curated by Stephen Phillips., 2005

“Sean Scully Body of Light”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, July 23 - Oct 10, 2004 (c), 2004

Literature

Periodical interview: Zutter, Jörg, “Sean Scully”, artonview, No. 38, Winter 2004, National Gallery of Australia, p. 18, 19 (colorplate) Sean Scully: Wall of Light exhibition catalogue published by Rizzoli and The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 2005. Edited by Stephen Phillips with essays by Stephen Phillips ‘Becoming Sean Scully’ and ‘Toward the Light’, Michael Auping ‘No Longer a Wall’ and Anne Strauss ‘Complements and Antidotes: Works on paper.’ Washington DC, 2005. Page 135. Colorplate Page 164. detail Exhibition catalogue: Sean Scully: Body of Light. National Gallery of Australia, Jul. 23- Oct. 10, 2004. Published by National Gallery of Australia, Jan. 28, 2005. Texts by Brian Kennedy ‘Foreword’ and ‘The Art of Sean Scully: A Human Spirituality’, Jorg Zutter ‘Interview with Sean Scully’, Timo Vuorikoski ‘Sean Scully: A Feminine Macho’, Arthur C. Danto ‘Sean Scully and the Art of Painting’, Jurgen Habermas ‘A Modernism that Turned into a Tradition: Glosses and Associations’, Donald Kuspit ‘Nuance and Intensity in Sean Scully: Humanism in Abstract Disguise’, Shaune A. Lakin ‘Walls and Fields: Sean Scully’s Wall of Light Desert Day 2003’. Page 71 (Colorplate) Solo Exhibition: “Sean Scully. Recent Paintings”. L.A. Louver, Venice, 2006. Texts by John Yau. English. Page 53. Colorplate. Monograph: “Sean Scully. Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings” Merrell Publishers, London, 2006. Texts by Sean Scully, Florence Ingleby, ed. English. Page 154