Nancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon.
13 Facts About Nancy Graves
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Nancy Graves's works are included in many public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia, the Des Moines Art Center, Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Fine Arts.
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When Graves was just 29, she was given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Nancy Graves was married to Richard Serra from 1965 to 1970.
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Like-minded artists included Eva Hesse, Close, Bruce Nauman, Keith Sonnier, and Serra, to whom Nancy Graves was married from 1965 to 1970.
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Nancy Graves's work has strong ties to the Alexander Calder's stabiles and to the sculptures of David Smith, with their welded parts and found objects; she collected works by both artists.
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In Variability of Similar Forms, from drawings that Nancy Graves made of Pleistocene camel skeletons, she sculpted 36 individual leg bones in various positions, each nearly the height of a man, and arranged them upright in an irregular pattern on a wooden base.
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Nancy Graves began showing open-form polychrome sculptures in 1980, one prime example being Trace, a very large tree whose trunk was made from ribbons of bronze with foliage of steel mesh.
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Nancy Graves created a distinctive body of aerial landscapes, mostly based on maps of the Moon and similar sources.
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Nancy Graves began using the lost wax technique in her later work.
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Nancy Graves worked and lived in Soho and in Beacon, New York, where she maintained a studio.
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Nancy Graves exhibited extensively in galleries in the United States and Europe and is represented in museums around the world.
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Nancy Graves made her last works in April 1995 at the Walla Walla Foundry with Saff Tech Arts in Washington state.