Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: July 26, 2013. Walter De Maria, a reclusive American sculptor... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: July 26, 2013. Walter De Maria, a reclusive American sculptor whose multifaceted achievement and sly Dadaist humor helped give rise to earthworks, Conceptual Art... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: July 26, 2013. Walter De Maria, a reclusive American sculptor whose multifaceted achievement and sly Dadaist humor helped give rise to earthworks, Conceptual Art and Minimal art, on an often monumental scale, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 77 and lived in New York. Mr. De Maria went to California two months ago to celebrate his mother's 100th birthday... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: July 26, 2013. Walter De Maria, a reclusive American sculptor whose multifaceted achievement and sly Dadaist humor helped give rise to earthworks, Conceptual Art and Minimal art, on an often monumental scale, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 77 and lived in New York. Mr. De Maria went to California two months ago to celebrate his mother's 100th birthday and had a stroke there a few days later. He had remained there for treatment. Elizabeth Childress, the director of his studio, said that he died in his sleep, perhaps of a second stroke. In a career of more than 50 years Mr. De Maria made drawings... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: July 26, 2013. Walter De Maria, a reclusive American sculptor whose multifaceted achievement and sly Dadaist humor helped give rise to earthworks, Conceptual Art and Minimal art, on an often monumental scale, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 77 and lived in New York. Mr. De Maria went to California two months ago to celebrate his mother's 100th birthday and had a stroke there a few days later. He had remained there for treatment. Elizabeth Childress, the director of his studio, said that he died in his sleep, perhaps of a second stroke. In a career of more than 50 years Mr. De Maria made drawings of all-but-invisible landscapes, game-like interactive wood sculptures and a record of himself... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (53)
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Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field
2007
Baker, Kenneth
0 pages (color)
Earthworks and Beyond: Contempory Art in the Landscape
2006
Beardsley, John
239 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Dia: The Collection in Beacon
2003
M. Govan, L. Cooke
288 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Icons of Art The 20th Century
1997
Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann
216 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
1996
Ratcliff, Carter
352 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Visions of America Landscape as Metaphor in the Late 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Friedman, Martin (et al)
256 pages (color)
Conceptual Art An American Perspective
1994
Morgan, Robert C
198 pages
The Mystical Now Art and the Sacred
1993
Beckett, Wendy
160 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Day, Holliday T
159 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990
1991
Wexner Center, Ohio State U
310 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
The Trans Parent Thread Asian Philosophy in Recent American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gelburd, Gail/Geri De Paoli
124 pages (color)
The Story of Modern Art
1989
Lynton, Norbert
400 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Minimalism Art of Circumstance
1988
Baker, Kenneth
144 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Walter DeMaria Large Rod Series 1984-1986 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Xavier Fourcade
28 pages (color)
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
526 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
American Art in Belgium (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Societe des Expositions
175 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Block, Rene
431 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
The Scene Reports on Post-Modern Art
1976
Tomkins, Calvin
272 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection