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Artists›Alan Shields

Alan Shields

1944

WA-00003728

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ2636828

MoMA

Field Verification (7 fields)

1 cross-verified · 6 single-source

Birth yearWikidata + Gallery· 92%✓
NationalityWikidata + Gallery· 92%
LocationGallery Generic + Gallery· 72%
Primary mediumGallery· 60%
BiographyGallery· 60%
Profile imageGallery· 60%
Death yearGallery· 60%

Source Registry (3)

Paula-Cooperhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/alan-shields
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Corbett-Dempseyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/alan-shields
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5396
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (16)

Bull-Pen

1984 · Woodcut, etching, aquatint and mixed media on paper

image: 1032 x 1067 mm

Tate

Two Birds, Woodcock I

1978 · Lithograph on paper

image: 527 x 617 mm

Tate

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 15/16 x 7 15/16" (20.1 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 7/8 x 7 7/8" (20 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 15/16 x 7 7/8" (20.1 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 13/16 x 7 15/16" (19.9 x 20.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 7/8 x 7 15/16" (20 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 15/16 x 7 15/16" (20.1 x 20.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 7/8 x 7 15/16" (20 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 15/16 x 7 3/4" (20.2 x 19.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from The Incestuous Kids

1973 · One from a portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

composition and sheet: 7 15/16 x 7 15/16" (20.1 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Incestuous Kids

1973 · Portfolio of nine screenprints with embossing, woodcut, linoleum cut, dye-cutting, flocking and glass bead additions

sheet (each approx.): 7 7/8 x 7 7/8" (20 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sun Moon Title Page

1971 · Screenprint with dye on perforated, cut, collaged and sewn paper

26 × 26" (66 × 66 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

G.U.--G.U. Well

1969 · Synthetic polymer paint and thread on unstretched canvas

9' 8 5/8" x 14' 3 1/8" (296 x 434.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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C,B.A.R.L.A.A.(OLD)Y.(ODD)O. (TAKEN FROM #18 OF A GROOP OF 23 DRAWINGS TITLED, 'LONELY NIGHT' 1968*1969) from the portfolio NEW YORK 10/69

1969 · Serigraph, printed in color with stencil and watercolor additions

irreg composition 17 7/8 x 17 7/8" (45.4 x 45.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Construction of cut-and-pasted paper, synthetic polymer paint, and crayon

6 1/4 x 6 1/2" (16.1 x 16.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (2)

16 published of 30 catalogued · 28 with image

MoMA
14 publishedof 28 catalogued26 img
Tate
2 published2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

Bull-Pen
1984 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Two Birds, Woodcock I
1978 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Tate

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Tate

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Kansas State University

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