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NIAGARA, by Robert Irwin

© Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © Philipp Scholz Rittermann

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© Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

Robert Irwin

American, born 1928

NIAGARA, 2012

Light+Shadow+Reflection+Color; fluorescent lamps, electrical tape, and colored gels

overall: 72 x 547 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (182.88 x 1390.65 x 12.07 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, by exchange, Edmund Hayes Fund, by exchange and Sherman S. Jewett Fund, by exchange, 2012

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Provenance

commissioned from the artist by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2012;
purchased through Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, June 19, 2012

Class

Installations
Light art

Work Type

Installation (visual work)
Light art

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