CHICAGO — Lee Bontecou is an artist of post-WWII decay and devastation, envisioning post-apocalyptic worlds through innovative methods that blend sculpture, painting, and drawing. She is best known ...
A photograph taken in the 1960s shows a young Lee Bontecou sitting in her New York City studio, ringed by steel cages and the half-finished shells of monumental wall sculptures. It was these cavernous ...
Lee Bontecou, the artist most widely known for her wall-mounted works evocative of science fiction and fabricated from industrial materials including steel, rope, canvas, fabric and more, has died.
“I just got tired of sculpture as a big thing in the middle of a room,” the artist once said, adding that she “wanted it to go into space.” Lee Bontecou — an artist who sculpted paintings, welded ...
You could gaze into some of Lee Bontecou's lenslike drawings for hours and not know if you're coming or going. Are her concentric rings receding or protruding? Are you falling through a black hole in ...
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Good on Paper: Works from the Gene J. and Betye M. Burton Acquisitions Endowment from February 24–August 2, 2026 at MOCA Grand Avenue. Standing in front of ...
If You Had $3 Million, Would You Bid on a Wall Piece by Donald Judd or One by His Peer Lee Bontecou?
In the latest installment in our series "This or That," art advisor Victoria Burns considers two very different artists from the heyday of 1960s New York. Lee Bontecou, Untitled (1960). Courtesy of ...
In 1972, the American artist Lee Bontecou, who died this week at age 91, showed a series of plastic flowers and vacuum-formed fish and sea creatures in New York. She felt she got bad reviews and left ...
Lee Bontecou seems surprisingly dainty standing by her great abstract sculptures in the main-floor galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art. But she spent years crawling around the dark, forbidding ...
Lee Bontecou, who vanished from the art world in the 1970s after a star-burst of fame, has spent the past few decades working in a remote Pennsylvania barn, producing a series of huge, ethereal, ...
The exhibit begins with the three-dimensional works that made Lee Bontecou famous in the 1960s — canvas stretched over welded metal frames, usually containing mysterious black voids, that evoke both ...
LEE BONTECOU UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM From 1960 to 1971, Lee Bontecou showed consistently at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, where her large-scale wall reliefs were admired by critics and collectors alike ...
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