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Lee Bontecou

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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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Facts about Lee Bontecou

   Publications  Book References:  92
Magazine References:  28

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28 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lee Bontecou
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction Artist Dossier-True Grit January 2005 Cascade, Rebecca Yes
ARTnews Underrated/Overrated January 2005 Sheets, Hilarie M Yes
Art & Auction Calendar October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
ARTnews Reviews-Lee Bontecou October 2004 MacAdam, Alfred Yes
Art & Auction September Calendar September 2004 Editors, Art + Auction Yes
ARTFORUM Fall 2004 Preview September 2004 Editors, Artforum No
ARTnews National News September 2004 Eitors, Artnews Yes
Art & Auction August Calendar August 2004 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Art in America Catching up with Bontecou June 2004 Duncan, Michael Yes
Art in America Front Page June 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews National News May 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Artworld April 2004 Editor Yes
Art in America Front Page January 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art-Talk Auction January 2004 Editors, Art-Talk Yes
ARTFORUM Preview Winter 2004 January 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews January 2004 Editors, Artforum No
ARTnews Art Market January 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
Art & Antiques Museum Scene December 2003 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk December 2003 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction books-present perfect December 2003 Plagens, Peter Yes
Art & Auction auction reviews December 2003 Tully, Judd Yes
ARTnews Lost & Found September 2003 Landi, Ann Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk July 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Who Are the Great Women Artists? March 2003 Landi, Ann Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions July 2002 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews March 2002 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTFORUM What You Say is What You See October 2001 Relyea, Lane Yes
ARTnews Ripe for Rediscovery November 1996 Landi, Ann Yes
92 Book References for Lee Bontecou
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 De Salvo, Donna (essay); Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Editor Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)		 212 Yes
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
2001 Meyer, James What You Say is What You See 340 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Hansen, Trudy (others) Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990 248 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Sparks, Esther Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years 552 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 181 No
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Walker, Barry The American Artist as Printmaker
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor) Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University) 106 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Butler, Hiram (others) Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Towle, Tony/Peter Gale Contemporary American Prints
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Fundaburk, Emma Lila Visual Arts in the United States: Book of Readings with Illustrations 453 No
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Johnson, Ellen H Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values 240 No
1976 Munro, Eleanor Originals:American Women Artists 528 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 174 No
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development 96 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1973 Rhode Island School of Design The Albert Pilavin Collection Twentieth-Century American Art II
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1970 Boston University American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1970 Fondation Maeght L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 Lieberman, William Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 139 Yes
1968 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Minimal Art A Critical Anthology 448 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Sweeney, James Johnson Signals in the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 1968 No
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Mulas, Ugo/Alan Solomon New York/The New York Art Scene 341 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1966 Taylor, Joshua C The W Hawkins Ferry Collection Detroit Institute of Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1965 Drawing Society Drawing Society National Exhibiti 1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1963 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Americans 1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
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