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Museums page for Kenneth D Snelson ((1927 - 2016)), known for Geometric form sculpture, assemblage, graphics. Showing 25 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1927 Pendleton, Oregon - 2016 Manhattan, New York. Known for: Geometric form sculpture, assemblage, graphics.
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said. Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said. Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s when he became enchanted by the lectures on geometric forms delivered by a last-minute substitute teacher, Buckminster Fuller, the futurist inventor and father of the geodesic dome. In an experiment, Early X... Read full biography
"Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89". By William Grimes, December 23, 2016, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Kenneth Snelson, a sculptor who stitched together aluminum tubes with flexible stainless-steel wires to create seemingly lighter-than-air towers, arcs and cantilevers, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Katherine, said. Mr. Snelson was a painting student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s when he became enchanted by the lectures on geometric forms delivered by a last-minute substitute teacher, Buckminster Fuller, the futurist inventor and father of the geodesic dome. In an experiment, Early X Piece (1948), Mr. Snelson took two X’s made from propeller-shaped pieces of plywood and suspended one over t... Read full biography
Kenneth D Snelson - Artist Info
About Kenneth D Snelson: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (25)
All MuseumsBirmingham Museum of Art
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd.
Birmingham, AL 35203Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Cantor Arts Center, Stanford
Lomita Drive/Museum Way
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA 94305Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
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Washington, DC 20013-7012Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Milwaukee Institute Of Art And Design
273 East Erie Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place
Canberra Act, AustraliaNeuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400New Jersey State Museum
205 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625-0530Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205Storm King Art Center
Old Pleasant Hill Road
P.O.Box 280
Mountainville, NY 10953-0280The Art Museum, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The Speed Art Museum
2035 South 3rd Street
Louisville, KY 40208University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014