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Alice Aycock

Alice Aycock

1946

SculptureLand Art

Representation

None documented

5

Institutional Exhibitions

12

Works in Collection

23

Assets Indexed

2

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Movements

• Land Art

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Contemporary Works from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986–1987

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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

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Projects: Alice Aycock

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977–1978

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Maps

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

About

Why this artist matters now

Alice Aycock is an American sculptor and installation artist. She was an early artist in the land art movement in the 1970s, and has created many large-scale metal sculptures around the world. Aycock's drawings and sculptures of architectural and mechanical fantasies combine logic, imagination, magical thinking and science.

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Land Art

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Sculpture

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Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (12)

East River Roundabout

East River Roundabout

1994 · Screenprint

composition (irreg.): 25 11/16 × 37 5/8" (65.2 × 95.6 cm); sheet: 33 7/8 × 43 15/16" (86 × 111.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Angels Continue Turning the Wheels of the Universe, Part I

1984 · Opaque watercolor, graphite pencil, ink, metallic ink pen and pastel on paper

Sheet: 27 3/4 × 39 3/8 in. (70.5 × 100 cm) Image: 27 3/4 × 39 3/8 in. (70.5 × 100 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

The New China Drawing: The World Above, The World Below

The New China Drawing: The World Above, The World Below

1984 · Pencil and colored pencil with crayon, acrylic, and cut-and-pasted paper on two sheets of transparent paper

overall: 95 3/8 x 105" (242.3 x 266.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

How To Catch and Manufacture Ghosts

How To Catch and Manufacture Ghosts

1981 · Etching, with pastel additions

plate (irreg.): 26 x 36 15/16" (66.1 x 93.9 cm); sheet: 28 7/16 x 38 1/2" (72.2 x 97.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Crown Monsters - Through an Arc

1981 · Graphite on mylar

54 × 47 in. (137.2 × 119.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Collected Ghost Stories from the Workhouse from the series How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts

Collected Ghost Stories from the Workhouse from the series How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts

1980 · Pencil and press type on transparentized paper

36 × 42" (91.4 × 106.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Study (Incomplete Plan) for Project Entitled "The City of the Walls"

Study (Incomplete Plan) for Project Entitled "The City of the Walls"

1978 · Pencil on transparentized paper

42 1/4 x 55 1/2" (107.2 x 140.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Study for Project Entitled "The City of the Walls: A Narrow City: A Thin City"

Study for Project Entitled "The City of the Walls: A Narrow City: A Thin City"

1978 · Pencil on transparentized paper

42 3/8 x 72" (107.5 x 183 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Project for an Inverted Pyramid: Oblique Section (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Dennis Oppenheim

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Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

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Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson

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Movements and affiliations

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Auction History

Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
Untitled	Phillips	Feb 2026	$600 – $900	$480