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Lee Bontecou

Lee Bontecou (1931 - 2022) was active/lived in New York, Rhode Island.  Lee Bontecou is known for Abstraction, assemblage, wall-mouonted sculpture.

"Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91," Obituary, The New York Times, by Jennifer Szalai, November 8, 2022. Alex Traub contributed reporting.

Her use of what one critic called “a three-dimensional form that was neither painting nor sculpture” earned the kind of praise typically reserved in the 1960s for male art stars.

Lee Bontecou, whose enormous, enigmatic wall-mounted sculptures garnered the kind of public acclaim and institutional backing in the 1960s typically reserved for male art stars at the time, died on Tuesday at her home in Florida. She was 91.

Her representative, Bill Maynes, confirmed the death but declined to specify where in Florida she lived.

Ms. Bontecou was one of the first — and, for a time, one of the only — women shown at the influential Leo Castelli Gallery, whose roster of artists included Cy Twombly, Frank Stella and Robert Rauschenberg. In the mid-1960s, the artist and critic Donald Judd praised her   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12848 characters.]  Artist bio

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