Chuck CloseAmerican, 1940–2021Untitled Torso Diptych (LM)
May one see it?
Not receiving at present
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2008.233a-b
In the catalog
Sources
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Image: Whitney Museum of American Art — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Chuck Close
The whole life1997
Cancels the show at the Metropolitan Museum
Close abruptly cancels a major show of his work scheduled for 1997 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art then announces that it will present a major midcareer retrospective.
1998
A retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art presents a major midcareer retrospective curated by Kirk Varnedoe, which travels in 1999 to the Hayward Gallery in London and other venues.
1998
Documentary films about Close
PBS broadcasts Marion Cajori’s Emmy-nominated short Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress; another documentary, Chuck Close: Eye To Eye, is made the same year by his Yale classmate Paul Tschinkel. In 2007 Cajori expands her film into a full-length one.
