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Anthony Caro

Table Piece, CLXXIX

1974

On View in James M. Kemper Gallery, Room 2

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The British artist Anthony Caro established his reputation in the early 1960s with large-scale welded sculptures made of industrial metal components that depart from the typical verticality of sculpture to spread horizontally along the floor. Table Piece, CLXXIX represents one in a series of smaller-scale sculptures that reach out diagonally and lean off the side of their support, drawing attention to the table’s edge and the surrounding space. To create this work Caro sourced remnants of steel discarded during the industrial rolling process from a mill in Durham, England. Unlike practitioners of Minimalism, who favored unitary shape and serial production, Caro’s hand-wrought, part-to-whole compositions leave intact the original curved outlines and mottled surfaces of the steel fragments, lending an organic character to the work. [Permanent Collection Label, 2021]

  • Artist Anthony Caro (English, 1924–2013)
  • Title Table Piece, CLXXIX
  • Date 1974
  • Medium Varnished steel
  • Dimensions unframed | 10 1/2 x 74 1/2 x 37 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold J. Joseph, 1981
  • Object number WU 1981.27.1
  • Currently on View James M. Kemper Gallery, Room 2

Contemporary Art—Selections from the Washington University Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/19/2001 - 03/18/2001

Anthony Caro: Table Top Sculptures, 1973/4
Greater London Council, Kenwood House (London, England), 09/11/1974 - 10/20/1974

Sculpture 1973–1974
Galleria dell'Ariete (Milan, Italy), 01/01/1974 - 01/01/1974

1981
Dr. & Mrs. Harold Joseph

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Sculpture 1973–1974

January 01, 1974–January 01, 1974
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Anthony Caro: Table Top Sculptures, 1973/4

September 11, 1974–October 20, 1974

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