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ID: 500022899
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022899
 
Record Type: Person
Irwin, Robert (American environmental artist and sculptor, 1928-2023)

Note: Southern California artist associated with the Light and Space movement of the 1960s, who early in his career ceased making paintings in favor of ephemeral and sometimes intangible art environments, acting as master planner for the Dia Foundation's building in the Hudson River city of Beacon, and the central garden of the Getty Center, Los Angeles.

Names:
Irwin, Robert (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Robert Irwin (V,display)
Irwin, Bob (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
sculptor
environmental artist
installation artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Long Beach (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  La Jolla (San Diego, San Diego county, California, United States) (neighborhood)

Events:
awarded:   1984

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
colleague of ....  Bereal, Edmund  
......................  (American painter and sculptor, born 1937) [500034456]
colleague of ....  Moses, Ed  
......................  (American painter and printmaker, born 1926) [500015112]
colleague of ....  Turrell, James  
......................  (American sculptor, born 1943) [500009338]
teacher of ....  Bell, Larry  
..................  (American sculptor, born 1939) [500005382]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Irwin, Robert (I)

Biographies:
(American environmental artist and sculptor, 1928-2023) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter and sculptor, born 1928) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, b.1928) ..... [WCI]
(American environmental artist, sculptor, 1928-) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, born 1928) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American environmental artist, born 1928) ..... [AVERY]
(American painter) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1928) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1928) ..... [MoMA]
(American sculptor, 1928-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Irwin, Bob ........ [VP]
......................  Zara, A Rowdy Roundtable Discussion, New York Times (2016)
Irwin, Robert ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
............................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50037672
............................  New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. 25 October 2023
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 41134
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
............................  Zara, A Rowdy Roundtable Discussion, New York Times (2016)
Robert Irwin ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M27; 940004
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Art in America 64 (1976)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Clark Art Institute Library
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50037672
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 4 March 2003
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50037672
....................  New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. 25 October 2023
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 41134
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-)
....................  Who's Who in American Art, 16th ed. (1984)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q7345814
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-)
.......... Who's Who in American Art, 16th ed. (1984)
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