ARTIST

Donald Judd

1928–1994 · United States

Minimalist pioneer who refused to call his industrial fabrications 'sculpture' and built a Texas art empire.

ABOUT

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism. In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. He is generally considered the leading international exponent of "minimalism", and its most important theoretician through such writings as "Specific Objects" (1964). Judd voiced…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Untitled 1960 · National Gallery of Canada Untitled 1961 · Museum of Modern Art Untitled 1962 · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [Studies of Colonial Architectural Fragments and Stepped Circle, Baja California, Mexico; and 2 Views from train en route from New York to Marfa, Texas] 1965 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Untitled 1978 · Cleveland Museum of Art Untitled 1981 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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