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Times Square
1980 · Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 116 7/8 in. (50.6 × 296.9 cm)
Image: 15 3/8 × 108 7/8 in. (39.1 × 276.5 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Kenneth Snelson
1927
SculptureContemporary
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
9
Works in Collection
25
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Contemporary
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Architectural Models from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
About
Why this artist matters now
Kenneth Duane Snelson was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works, exemplified by Needle Tower, are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of tensegrity, although Snelson preferred the descriptive term floating compression.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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Contemporary
Medium
Sculpture
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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