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Double Summer
1987 · Aluminum and wood
46 1/8 x 53 3/4 x 27 1/4" (117.1 x 136.5 x 69.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ronald Bladen
1918
SculptureMinimalismGeometric AbstractionConstructivism
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
17
Works in Collection
35
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Minimalism
- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Constructivism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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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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The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Why this artist matters now
Ronald Bladen created monumental steel sculptures whose geometric severity drew from European Constructivism and the formal innovations of Isamu Noguchi and David Smith. Working at a scale that transformed architectural space, his work became foundational to Minimalism, influencing a generation of younger sculptors including Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt, who acknowledged him as a defining figure of the movement. His practice bridged painting and sculpture, grounding abstraction in the phenomenology of mass and void.
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Minimalism
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Sculpture
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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