Blue Light Holds the Distance
John Avery Newman, American, born 1952
2013
Charred wood with polyurethane, steel-wire Tanzanian rat-traps, 23 karat gold double gilded cast aqua agate, computer generated vacuum-formed translucent Plexiglas, wood, wood putty, papier mache, aqua resin, acrylic paint
Overall: 22 × 30 × 17 in. (55.9 × 76.2 × 43.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H.. Hazen, by exchange and the Kira Fournier and Benjamin Schore Sculpture Fund
© John Newman
2013.21
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Course History
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023
Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.
Publication History
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 123 , no. 114
Provenance
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2013.
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