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Nakian [By] Frank O'hara Nakian [by] Frank O'Hara. [Exhibition], June 20-Sept. 5, 1966 Author Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Date 1966 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2577 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art N A K I A X 56 pages; 80 illustrations $4.95 N AKI AN by Frank O'Hara This extensively illustrated monograph is the first to appear on one of America's foremost modern sculptors, Reuben Nakian. As Frank O'Hara makes clear in his illuminating study, Nakian's career "has had dramatic ups and downs, advances, re versals, revaluations." Following in the tradition of Paul Manship and Gaston Lachaise, Nakian by his mid-thirties was already acclaimed for his styl ized animal sculpture and realistic portraits. Then abruptly he drastically revised his artistic concepts, and after virtually abandoning sculpture for about a decade reemerged in the late 1940s with draw ings, terra-cottas, and bronzes that were sensuous, abstract interpretations of mythological themes. This new style, while highly personal, was closely related to that of the abstract expressionists. It led directly to the remarkable plastic innovations of the later works in plaster, bronze, and steel — heroic both in subject and scale —through which Nakian has made his major contribution to con temporary art. The detailed chronology and bibliography which supplement the text clarify the events in Nakian's career and indicate as well the growth of interest in his work. Frank O'Hara, Associate Curator of the Depart ment of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, is a well-known poet and playwright who has been closely associated with the abstract expressionist movement in this country. He is the author of a monograph on Jack son Pollock, New Spanish Painting and Sculpture (i960), Robert Motherwell, published in 1965 on the occasion of the Museum's exhibition, and numerous critical articles. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 West 53 Street New York, New York 100 19 Distributed by Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York (o(o.u,n ADDENDA Catalogue no. 87, Leda and the Swan: For "1963" read "1962 (inscribed on reverse)" The following terra-cottas by Nakian, not included in Catalogue no. 120 and caption p. 24: For "Europa Series. the catalogue, have also kindly been made available for 1959-60" read "Nymph and Goat. 1964" the exhibition by the Egan Gallery: For these works, more accurate measurements are now Paris. 1948. 12" high. available than at the time the catalogue went to press: Rape of Lucrece Series. 1955-58. 12V2"long. Rape of Lucrece Series. 1955-58. 1134" long. Catalogue no. 14, Heraldic Figures, and caption p. 26: Rape of Lucrece Series. 1955-58. nV^'long. For "814" high" read "8" long" Europa. 1958. 11" high. Catalogue no. 17, Voyage to Crete, and caption p. 12: Europa. 1959-60. 12" long. For "28" high" read "36%" long" 5/8"long. Europa. 1959-60. i5 Catalogue no. 18, La Chambre a Coucher de VEmpereur, Europa Series. 1959-60. 9%" long. and caption p. 10: For "70" long" read "6'5!4" long" Mars and Venus Series. 1959-60. 1214" long. Catalogue no. 33, Venus and Adonis: For "12I4" long" Europa. i960. 1134" high. read "io34" long" Europa. i960. 17" long. Catalogue no. 35, The Duchess of Alba, and caption p. Herodias. i960. io!4"high. 1 5: For " 1o' long" read "9'6" long" Europa. 1962. 8" high. Catalogue no. 37, Europa and the Bull: For "io!4" long" 5/s" Leda and the Swan. 1962. io long. read "io34" high" 1/4"long. Leda and the Swan. 1962-63. i2 Catalogue no. 46, Leda and the Swan: For "22" long" Leda and the Swan. 1963. 1814" long. read "16 W long" Nymph and Goat. 1964. £34" long. Catalogue no. 47, Mars and Venus, and caption p. 24: For "13' long" read "13'6" long" Catalogue no. 48, Mars and Venus Series, and caption p. ERRATA 24: For "15" long" read "1614" long" Catalogue no. 50, Europa Series, and caption p. 29: For p. 2: The following photographs, erroneously credited to "8" high" read "934" long" Thor Bostrom, should instead be credited to O. E. Catalogue no. 67, Europa Series, and caption p. 30: For 3/4" Nelson: 6; 36; 37 above left, below left "11" high" read "1 1 long" p. 11, 1. 2: For "brush or paper" read "brush on paper" Catalogue no. 71, Leda and the Swan: For "1 514" long" p. 21, caption for Leda and the Swan: Insert date "1962" read "14I4" high" Catalogue no. 13, Paris, and caption p. 21 : For "1950" Catalogue no. 76, Nymph and Goat: For "16" high" read read1 <( 1944 >> "14I4" long" Catalogue no. 34, Europa and the Bull, and caption p. Catalogue no. 77, Study for Paris: For "1314" high" read 29: For "Terra-cotta" read "Terra-cotta, painted" "1 5 14" high" Catalogue no. 35, The Duchess of Alba, and caption p. Catalogue no. 93, Nymph and Satyr: For "8" high" read 1 5: Credit to lender, Los Angeles County Museum of "914" long" Art, should include "(Contemporary Art Council Pur Catalogue no. 98, Nymph and Satyr Series: For "15" chase, in memory of Hans de Shulthess)" high" read "i8!4" high" Catalogue no. 54, Salome and Herodias with the Head Catalogue no. 100, Relief I: For "28" long" read "23I4" of John the Baptist, and caption p. 31: For "Terra long" cotta" read "Terra-cotta, painted" Catalogue no. 101, Relief II: For "28" long" read "24I4" Catalogue no. 63, Abstraction: Credit to lender, Los An long" geles County Museum of Art, should include "(Con Catalogue no. 102, Relief 111:For "28" long" read "22%" temporary Art Council Fund)" high- Catalogue no. 85, Leda and the Swan: For "Bronze, 9" Catalogue no. 103, Relief IV: For "28" long" read "25" long" read "Terra-cotta, 914" long" long" Frank O'Hara The Museum of Modern Art, New York N A K I A DISTRIBUTED BY DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY. NEW YORK Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art David Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board; Henry covers: front —Birth of Venus. 1963-66. Plaster, Allen Moe, William S. Paley, Vice-Chairmen; 1o'i 1"long. Egan Gallery, back— Pastorale. 1948. Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, President; Ralph F. Colin, Terra-cotta, 15%" high. Collection Donald Droll. Gardner Cowles, James Thrall Soby, Vice-Presi dents; Willard C. Butcher, Treasurer; Walter Ba- photograph credits Thor Bostrom: 6; 10; 12 reiss, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., *Mrs. Robert Woods below right; 13 left; 15; 19; 20 above left, below Bliss, William A. M. Burden, Ivan Chermayeff, left, below right; 21 below; 22 right; 25 above *Mrs. W. Murray Crane, John de Menil, Rene right, below; 28-29; 3° above right, below; 31 d'Harnoncourt, Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon, Mrs. above; 35-37; 42 above right; 44; 45 above left; 46 Edsel B. Ford, *Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, Wallace above left, above right; 47; and front cover.— K. Harrison, Mrs. Walter Hochschild, *James W. Burckhardt: 13 right; 17; 21 above; 26; 31 below. Husted, Philip Johnson, Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, —Clements: 33 (courtesy Whitney Museum of John L. Loeb, * Ranald H. Macdonald, *Mrs. G. American Art).—Los Angeles County Museum of Macculloch Miller, Mrs. Charles S. Payson, f Dun Art: 14 above left, above right, below left.—O. E. can Phillips, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Nel Nelson: 30 above left; 32; 34.—Petersen: 23; 24; son A. Rockefeller, Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, 25 above left.—D. D. Ryan: frontispiece; 42 be Mrs. Bertram Smith, Mrs. Donald B. Straus, *Ed- low right.—Bob Serating: 46 below (courtesy Lin ward M. M. Warburg, * Monroe Wheeler, John coln Center).—William R. Simmons: 45 above Hay Whitney. right (courtesy New York University).—Sunami: 12 above left, above right; 14 below right; 18; 20 "'Honorary Trustee f Deceased above right; 27; 40 below; 41 below right; and back cover.—UPI International: 41 below left (courtesy Art News).—De Witt Ward: 38 below right (courtesy Art News).—Whitney Museum of © 1966, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 American Art: 38 below left; 40 above.—World- Street, New York, N. Y. 100 19. Library of Con Telegram and Sun : 4 1 above right.—Also, the fol gress Catalogue Card Number 66-22481. De lowing unknown photographers: 38 above; 42 signed by Mary Margaret Ahern. Printed in the above left (courtesy Art News); 45 below (cour United States of America by Pictorial Offset. tesy Museum of Modern Art). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS their respective cities, mentioned above. We have benefited greatly by the documentation for these shows, and also from the independent research of This exhibition surveys Reuben Nakian's work of Miss Cynthia Jaffe. the last twenty years, commencing with sculptures On behalf of The Museum of Modern Art, I of the mid-'forties after he had reexamined and wish to thank the following lenders whose gen drastically revised the style which had brought erosity has made possible the presentation of this him to public attention more than a decade before. exhibition: Mr. David P. Bassine, New York; Mrs. Since this catalogue is, however, the first extensive Robert M. Benjamin, New York; Mrs. Eleanor publication to appear on the artist, certain key Berkson, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Thor Bostrom, works of his earlier period are illustrated in the New York; Mr.
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