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Title:C-Change
Artist:George Sugarman (American, Bronx, New York 1912–1999 New York, New York)
Date:1965
Medium:Painted wood
Dimensions:8 ft. 10 1/2 in. × 36 in. × 48 1/2 in. (270.5 × 91.4 × 123.2 cm)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Albert A. List, 1986
Accession Number:1986.251ab
Mrs. Albert A. List, New York (by 1966–86; her gift to MMA)
New York. Stephen Radich Gallery. "George Sugarman," May 3–28, 1966, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Art of the United States: 1670–1966," September 28–November 27, 1966, no. 360 (lent by the Albert A. List Family Collection).
Kunsthalle Basel. "George Sugarman: Plastiken, Collagen, Zeichnungen," September 21–October 26, 1969, no. 16 (lent by Mrs. A. List, New York).
Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich. "George Sugarman: Plastiken, Collagen, Zeichnungen," November 15, 1969–January 4, 1970, no. 16.
Berlin. Haus am Waldsee. "George Sugarman: Plastiken, Collagen, Zeichnungen," January 16–February 22, 1970, no. 16.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "George Sugarman: Plastiken, Collagen, Zeichnungen," March 13–April 26, 1970, no. 16.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "George Sugarman: Painted Wood Sculpture," November 27, 1985–February 9, 1986, unnumbered cat. (lent by Albert and Vera List, courtesy of the Robert Miller Gallery, New York).
Irving H. Sandler. "Sugarman Makes a Sculpture." Art News 65 (May 1966), pp. 35–37, ill. (color), locates it in the Albert A. List collection, New York.
Amy Goldin. "The Sculpture of George Sugarman." Arts Magazine 40 (June 1966), pp. 29–30.
Nathan Knobler. The Visual Dialogue: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Art. New York, 1967, pp. 83, 217, colorpl. 19.
Wendell Castle. "Wood: George Sugarman." Craft Horizons 27 (March/April 1967), p. 32, ill. (work in progress).
Sidney Simon. "George Sugarman." Art International 11 (May 20, 1967), pp. 24–26, ill.
Amy Goldin. "Beyond Style." Art and Artists (September 1968), pp. 34–35.
Harry Kramer. "Objekte, Plastiken." Kunst 10, no. 39 (1970), ill. p. 1912.
Michael Desiano. "American Chromatic Non-Representational Sculpture of the 1960s." PhD diss., New York University, 1973, pl. XII.
Marietta Warner Siegel. "Aesthetic Uses of Transparency in Sculpture: A Theoretical and Creative Investigation." PhD diss., New York University, 1980, fig. 104.
Irving Sandler in Holliday T. Day. Shape of Space: The Sculpture of George Sugarman. Exh. cat., Joslyn Art Museum. Omaha, 1981, p. 83, ill.
Nancy Princenthal inGeorge Sugarman: Painted Wood Sculpture. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. 1985, unpaginated, ill. (color).
Miriam Rabinowitz. "George Sugarman's Sculpture." Arts Magazine 60 (September 1985), p. 101, ill. p. 100 (image courtesy Robert Miller Gallery).
Arthur C. Danto. "Art; The Art of George Sugarman." The Nation (February 8, 1986), pp. 152–53.
Arthur C. Danto. The State of the Art. 1987, pp. 162–63, ill. following p. 100 (color).
Meyer Raphael Rubinstein. Arts Magazine 64 (January 1990), pp. 76–77, dates it 1963.
Claes Oldenburg (American (born Sweden), Stockholm 1929–2022 New York)
1962
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