-
Artworks
Bruce Nauman
"A Rose Has No Teeth"/ Lead or bronze plaque to be attached/ to a tree in the woods so that it will/ be grown over, 1966graphite on paper18 7/8 x 24 in (47.9 x 61 cm)Exhibitions
Bruce Nauman: Work from 1965 to 1972, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 19 December 1972 – 18 February 1973, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 29 March – 13 May 1973; traveled to Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 16 June – 12 August 1973; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, 28 August – 23 September 1973; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 12 October – 25 November 1973; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, March – April 1974; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 31 May – 14 July 1974 (catalogue)
Bruce Nauman: Drawings/Zeichnungen, 1965-1986, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland, 17 May – 13 July 1986; Kunsthalle Tubingen, West Germany, 26 July – 7 September 1986; Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany, 30 September – 16 November 1986; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 29 November 1986 – 18 January 1987; Kunstraum, Münich, Germany, 4 February – 22 March 1987; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany, 29 March – 24 May 1987; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 26 June – 8 August 1987; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 10 September – 8 November 1987; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 5 December 1987 – 17 January 1988; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 9 February – 11 April 1988; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 4 May – 10 July 1988 (catalogue)
A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, 17 January – 15 April 2007; Castello di Rivolli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 23 May – 9 September 2007; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, 12 October 2007 – 13 January 2008 (catalogue)
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980, The Met Breuer, New York, 13 September 2017 – 14 January 2018 (catalogue)
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, Schaulager, Basel, 17 March – 26 August 2018; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, 16 October 2018 – 25 February 2019 (catalogue)
New York, David Nolan Gallery, The Collector and The Art Dealer: Jack Shear and David Nolan, A 20 Year Adventure with Drawings (January 13 - February 11, 2023)
Literature
Livingston, Jane, and Marcia Tucker. Bruce Nauman: Work from 1965 to 1972. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972, illustrated, pp. 13, 122, no. 71.
Bruce Nauman: Drawings, 1965-1986. Exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné of drawings with essays by Coosje van Bruggen, Dieter Koepplin, and Franz Meyer. English edition. Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1986, illustrated, no. 19, fig. 29, p. 17.
Van Bruggen, Coosje. Bruce Nauman. New York: Rizzoli, 1988, illustrated, pp. 113, 162.
Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89. Exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné. New York and Chicago: Castelli Graphics, Lorence-Monk, and Donald Young, 1989, illustrated, fig. 6, pp. 12-13.
Lewallen, Constance M. A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960’s. Exhibition catalogue with essays by Robert R. Riley, Rob Storr, and Anne M. Wagner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007, illustrated, pp. 42, 148-149.
Blume, Eugen. Bruce Nauman. Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Collector’s Choice vol. 10. Köln: Dumont, 2010, illustrated, p. 42.
Plagens, Peter. Bruce Nauman: The True Artist. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2014, illustrated, fig. 77, pp. 69-70, 81.
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017, illustrated in color, pl. 91, pp. 198, 215.
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Museum of Modern Art; Basel: Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager, 2018, illustrated in color, pp. 275, 313.
Storr, Rob. “Please Pay Attention, Please.” In A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960’s. Exhibition catalogue. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007, p. 148.
MAILING LIST SIGN-UP
By completing this form, you confirm that you would like to subscribe to DAVID NOLAN’s mailing list and receive information about exhibitions and upcoming events. Your email address will be used exclusively for the mailing list service.
* denotes required fields
We will process the personal data you have supplied to communicate with you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.