LIPCHITZ, Ossip/Jacques

Druskieniki, Lithuania 1891 - Capri, Italy 1973

Portes menant à la Roofless Church (Eglise sans toit) de Philip Johnson

Gates Leading to Philip Johnson's Roofless Church

1958-1960

bronze

type: other

Photo credit: ph. Wikimedia/Sarah Ewart

© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)

New Harmony, Indiana, Roofless Church

visitnewharmony.com/celebrate/roofless-church/

Provenance

• 1958, Church is commissioned by philanthropist Jane Blaffer Owen (1915-2010) to architect Philip Johnson (1906-2005)
• 1960, Church is completed

Bibliography

• 2000 Wilkinson
  Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue raisonné, Volume 2, The American Years 1941-1973, London, Thames & Hudson, 2000, p. 73 no. 552, 176

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