Untitled

Maker

(artist)
born 16/11/1930

Title

Untitled

Date of Production

2024

Medium

pencil and marker on graph paper

Dimensions

Height: 43.1 cm
Width: 55.8 cm

Accession Number

D.2025.XX.8

Mode of Acquisition

gift, 2025

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Gift of the artist, 2025.

Copyright

Courtesy of the artist and Zürcher Gallery, New York / Paris.

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

This recent drawing by the sculptor Alice Adams continues her graphic exploration of organic forms using a unique style of chicken-wire line drawings on graph paper that she started making in the early 1960s. By about 1964, at the height of her success as weaver and fibre artist, Adams began to sculpt with industrial and machined materials, such as chicken-wire and chain-link fencing, rusted cable and telephone wire. That moment marked her turn from the world of ‘craft’ to that of abstract sculpture. Her drawings from this period are in pen and marker, and sometimes incorporate more than one colour, as this one. They relate closely to her extraordinary sculpture, Big Aluminum 2, shown in Lucy Lippard’s groundbreaking exhibition, Eccentric Abstraction, at the Fischbach Gallery, in 1966.

Provenance

Alice Adams; gifted to the Samuel Courtauld Trust.

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