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Blossom
2017 · Etching in four colors with chine collé and red pen addition by the artist
Sheet: 22 × 11 in. (55.9 × 27.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Richard Tuttle
1941
WA-00000142
SculptureInstallation ArtMinimalism
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
223
Works in Collection
472
Assets Indexed
13
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Authority Records (2)
Field Verification (6 fields)
3 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (6)
- Pace-GalleryTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- SothebysTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- David-KordanskyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Marian-GoodmanTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Richard Tuttle makes small-scale sculptures, drawings, and installations that operate through radical reduction of line and material. Working across sculpture, painting, printmaking, and artist's books, he privileges restraint and intimacy over monumentality, allowing modest gestures, a single wire, a folded paper, a length of string, to generate spatial and perceptual consequence. Based in New York, New Mexico, and Maine, Tuttle's practice emerged from postminimalism's critique of the grand gesture, instead proposing that attention itself, rather than scale or spectacle, constitutes the work's primary medium.
Source: Pace Gallery · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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Installation Art
Medium
Sculpture
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Artworks (223)
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Artwork sources (6)
223 published of 414 catalogued · 210 with image
- MoMA190 publishedof 380 catalogued185 img
- Art Institute Chicago24 published24 img
- The Met7 published
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
- Whitney1 published
- + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 2000 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Images
51 assets
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8Institutional
Representation & Collections
Gallery
Pace Gallery
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Background
Education
Trinity College
Visual Arts
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