A busy KIPP week after receiving a small catalog of the 1962 Parsons show, I happened to see an email from KIPP collector, Beau Ott, with some data corrections and updates - including an article dating BADGE. This led to a new general web search and I located imagery at the Smithsonian of TAU and FLUX.
BADGE and PLUMB appear to be the first examples of the bolted plates era.
Always exciting to find more information after all these years.
Two new entries to highlight this week:
PUFFIN (blue blue) is a painted steel piece created in 1967 from the Mary and John Pappajohn collection. The lighter blue used here was an unusual departure from the bold primary colors KIPP generally utilized in this period.
UNTITLED a rolled ink piece from 1981.
Realizing it has been some time since any news was added, recently, two previously undocumented sculptures were sold at auction.
PICACHO is a medium sized piece from the "intersections" series that was displayed in the The Nuclear Age: Tradition and Transition show at the Phoenix Art Museum in the fall of 1983.
UNTITLED is a small, painted wood piece from 1967.
There was also an untitled ink roller piece added from 1980.
On another cursory web review, I was just about to close down on President's Day and noticed a new image on one of the pages at the Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute. Earl and Christy Powell donated works from KIPP, John Henry (whose passing I missed in Nov '22), and Joel Perlman.
The restoration and installation of all four pieces was supported by Michael J. Zinner, M.D., Bill and Susan Tillett, Louis J. Capano, and Bill and Clare Banchs.
I will make a trip down to Miami in the next few weeks to see BLACKJACK and visit D in Greynolds Park.
The piece was displayed alongside other yellow works by Anne Truitt, Beauford Delaney, Charles and Ray Eames, Sheila Hicks, and William Turnbull
