Sean Scully

Why and What Yellow

Oil on linen with steel
40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
SSp88 10
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Public Collection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Exhibitions

Palacio de Velazquez del Retiro, Madrid, Spain, Sept 14-Nov 12, 1989, 1989

“Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995”, 1995-1996, traveling exhibition (c): Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 14 June - 10 Sept 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 10 Oct 1995 - 7 Jan 1996; Fundacio “la Caixa,” Centre Cultural, Barcelona, Spain 5 Feb - 7 Apr 1996, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 23 May - 24 Aug 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19 Sept - 24 Nov 1996, 1996

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, July 12 - Aug 27, 1989, 1989

“Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift”, Tate Gallery, London, England, Feb 24 - Apr 26, 1988 (c), 1988

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, May 5 - June 25, 1989, 1989

"Sean Scully: Paintings and Works on Paper 1982-1988," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK. May 5 – June 25, 1989; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain. September 14 – November 12, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. July 12 – August 27, 1989., 1989

"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

Sean Scully: Paintings and Works on Paper 1982-1988 traveling exhibition (c), 0

Literature

Porier, 161, 162, plate 129 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. 58 (colorplate) Exhibition announcement card: “Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Sept 21 – Dec 1, 1996 (color illus.) Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully”, curated by Danilo Eccher, Galleria d’Arte Moderna - Villa Delle Rose, Bologna, Italy, May 31 - September 1, 1996, pg. 64 (colorplate) Book: “The 20th Century Art Book”, Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1996, p. 419 (colorplate) Periodical article: Lingemann, Susanne. “Liebeserklärungen mit der Disziplin von Piet Mondrian”, art, July 1995, p. 77 (colorplate) Exhibition/lecture announcement card: “Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995”, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 13 June 1995 (color illus.) Catalogue: Smith, Alistair. “Sean Scully”, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 1994, p. 86 (colorplate), 88 Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully. The Catherine Paintings”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, 1993, pg. 27, Fig. 10 (colorplate) Periodical article: Cooke, Lynne. “Sean Scully”, Galeries Magazine, Aug/Sept 1989, p. 62 (colorplate) Periodical review: Carrier, David. “Spatial Relations. Sean Scully”, ArtInternational, Autumn 1989, p. 81 (colorplate), p 82 Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully, Paintings & Works on Paper 1982-88”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, 1989, colorplate 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 85 (colorplate 56) Monograph: “Kunstwerkstatt Sean Scully”. Prestel Verlag, Munich, Germany, 2009. Texts by Helmut Friedel. German. Page 32 (colorplate) Monograph: “Sean Scully. Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings” Merrell Publishers, London, 2006. Texts by Sean Scully, Florence Ingleby, ed. English.Page 35 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 37. Exhibition Brochure” “Sean Scully. Twenty Years, 1976-1995” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 1995/ Text by Ned Rifkin. Black and White illust. Cover.