Martin Puryear
b. 1941
Martin L. Puryear is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative… (Wikipedia)
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Martin L. Puryear is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.
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In the collections of
Art Institute of ChicagoCleveland Museum of ArtJ. Paul Getty MuseumMetropolitan Museum of ArtMichael C. Carlos MuseumMinneapolis Institute of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtPhiladelphia Museum of ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSmithsonian American Art MuseumStudio Museum in HarlemThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtVanderbilt Museum of ArtWhitney Museum of American Art
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Artist record compiled from: Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), Wikidata (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.