Second Letter (Zen Spring)

Contemporary Art

2006/09

Brice Marden
American, born 1938

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Brice Marden
Title: Second Letter (Zen Spring)
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date: 2006–2009
Medium: Oil on linen
Dimensions: 244 × 366 cm (96 × 144 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior bequests of Maxine Kunstadter and Solomon B. Smith; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin and Richard Veit; Mary and Leigh Block Fund for Acquisitions; through prior gifts of Society for Contemporary Art and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith; through prior bequest of Sigmund E. Edelstone; through prior gifts of Mr. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Florene May Schoenborn, and Mr. and Mrs. Erne R. Frueh; Grant J. Pick Purchase Fund; through prior gifts of Arnold H. Maremont, an anonymous donor, and Mr. and Mrs. R. Howard Goldsmith; Goodman Fund; through prior gift of Ottawa Silica Company, courtesy of Edmund B. Thornton, Chairman of the Board; Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Leval, Mary and Leigh Block, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, James Brown IV, Robert A. Lewis and Keith Wellin, Marlborough Gallery in honor of John Maxon, and Edgar B. Miller; Wirt D. Walker Fund; through prior gifts of Miss Darthea Speyer, Sylvia Belgrade in memory of Norman Belgrade, and Lotta and Sheldon Ackerman; through prior purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Allan Frumkin; Samuel A Marx Endowment; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Freehling, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Robert A. Lewis in memory of Mrs. Polly Levey, Suzanne Elkins and Jim Rose; through prior bequest of Katherine Kuh; through prior purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith; through prior bequest of Florence Heller; through prior gifts of Mr. Emerson Crocker, Mrs. Samuel W. Koffler, Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, Louise Crane Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. William J. Tannenbaum, Vernon and Marcia Wagner, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, from the Child Hasam Fund Total, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr; Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer; Pauline Palmer Purchase Prize Fund; through prior gifts of Robert Orton, Jr., James Brown IV in memory of Harold H. Swift, and Mr. John L. Strauss; Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon B. Smith, Solomon B. Smith Charitable Trust, Third Unitarian Church of Chicago, Bruce J. McCowan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Feigen, Mr. and Mrs. Ainsley K. Salz, Dr. and Mrs. Irving Forman, Mr. J. Patrick Lannan, and Laura van Pappelendam
Reference Number: 2012.31

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