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Home > Art > Spiral Rhythm

Spiral Rhythm

Artist

Max Weber

Date

1959

Medium

Gilded plaster

Object Type

Sculpture

Dimensions

H- 24 1/8 x W- 14 1/4 x D- 14 7/8 in. (61.8 x 36.5 x 36.5 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

Russia

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2017.02.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
By descent to Joy S. Weber, daughter of Max Weber, Santa Fe, NM;
Estate of Joy S. Weber;
By descent to Elena Lamb, Santa Fe, NM;

New York, NY. Forum Gallery. Max Weber. October 25-November 14, 1975, cat. no. 62, ill. np.

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