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String Composition No. 50
1952 · Plastic thread, painted Masonite, and aluminum frame
34 × 45 in. (86.4 × 114.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sue Fuller
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The Responsive Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Some American Prints, 1949�50, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Master Prints from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Sue Fuller stretched colored strings and threads across wooden frames to create geometric compositions that explored rhythm, tension, and spatial illusion. Working from the 1940s onward, she developed a distinctive linear abstraction that occupied an unusual position between fiber art and geometric abstraction during the postwar period. Her string compositions transformed modest domestic materials into rigorously formal spatial investigations, establishing an early precedent for non-traditional sculptural practice in American modernism.
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