Sean Scully

Wall of Light Desert Night

Oil on linen
40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
SSp99 25
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Public Collection: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Exhibitions

"Sean Scully. Wall of Light," Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. October 18, 2001; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico. March 28, 2002. Curated by Michael Auping., 2001

"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

110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 2002

Sean Scully: Kunstmuseum Bern. Grey Wolf. 9th march - 24th june 2012. A Retrospective. Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, July 20th – October 14, 2012., 2012

"Sean Scully. Grey Wolf – A Retrospective," Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria. July 20 – October 14, 2012. Curated by Dr. Brigitte Reutner., 2012

"Sean Scully. Wall of Light," Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY. February 28 – April 14, 2018. Curated by Sukanya Rajaratnam., 2018

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

Sean Scully: Kunstmuseum Bern. Grey Wolf. 9th march - 24th june 2012. A Retrospective., 2012

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue: ‘Sean Scully. Retrospektive/Retrospective. Grey Wolf. Kunstmuseum Bern and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz: Texts by Matthias Frehner ‘Grey wolf or the Spiritual in the Art of Sean Scully’. Annick Haldemann ‘Concrete Abstractions’, Brigitte Reutner ‘On the Development and Effect of Light in the work of Sean Scully’. (ENG-GER) Page 125 (colorplate) Book: Scully, Sean, “La Surface Peinte”, Daniel Lelong Editeur, Paris, 2008 (color illus.) Exhibition catalogue: Hubbard, Sue, “Sean Scully. La surface peinte”, Galerie Lelong Paris, France, May 16 - July 5, 2008, pg. 6 (color illus.) Periodical article/transcript of lecture: Scully, Sean. “Sean Scully Conferencia en la Coleccion Phillips, Washington DC, 2005”, Arte y Parte, Santander, Spain, No. 67, Feb/Mar 2007, p. 63 (colorplate) Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 196, 196 (colorplate) Online review: O’Brien, Titus. “Sean Scully: Wall of Light”, GlassTire - texas visual art online, May 2006, http://www.glasstire.com/ReviewsDetail.asp?id=247 Periodical review: Carrier, David. “Marden; Scully”, The Burlington Magazine, CXLIX, Feb 2007, pg. 132 (colorplate) Periodical review: Ayers, Robert. “Sean Scully”, ARTnews, Vol. 105/Number 11, December 2006, pg. 144 (colorplate) Exhibition catalogue: Auping, Michael, ed. “110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, Dec 2002 - Mar 2003, p. 160, 161, 162 (colorplate), 291 (BW reproduction) Monograph: “Sean Scully. Cuerpos de luz / Bodies of Light” Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain, 2007. Texts by Sean Scully. English / Spanish. Page 5. (Colorplate) Monograph: “Sean Scully. Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings” Merrell Publishers, London, 2006. Texts by Sean Scully, Florence Ingleby, ed. English. page 179 Exhibition catalogue: Sean Scully: Wall of Light. Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Mexico, Oct. 2001- Jan. 2002. Museum of Modern Art, City of Mexico, Mar. - Jun. 2002.Published by Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, A.C. Mexico 2001. Texts by Michael Auping ‘No Longer a Wall’. (ENG-SPA) Page 77. (Colorplate)