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The Carnegie Prize is an international art prize awarded by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It currently consists of a $10,000 cash prize accompanied by a gold medal.
History
[edit | edit source]The Carnegie Prize was established in 1896, to recognize the best painting shown in the first annual exhibition of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. Unlike most American annual exhibitions, which were limited to artists born or resident in the United States, the Carnegie exhibitions were international.[1] To attract top painters from home and abroad, the Carnegie exhibitions offered high cash prizes—$1,500 for the First Class winner, $1,000 for the Second-Class winner and $500 for the Third-Class winner. The First-Class winner's cash prize was accompanied by the Carnegie Gold Medal of Honor (1896), designed by Tiffany & Co. and cast by J.E. Caldwell & Co. Often, especially in the early years, the prize-winning painting was purchased for the museum's permanent collection.[1]
The exhibition has undergone a series of name changes and transformations—adding a gold medal for sculpture (beginning in 1958),[2] and going from a schedule of every year to every second or third year, and now, to every fourth or fifth year. The exhibitions in the late 1970s were retrospectives of established artists. In 1982, the exhibition was renamed the Carnegie International, and returned to its original mission of showing recent works by a host of artists. In 1985, the Carnegie Prize was refocused to recognize not just a single work of art but an honoree's entire body of work.[1] In the 1990s, the exhibition expanded to include non-traditional artists and filmmakers.
As of 2019, 67 Carnegie Prizes had been awarded and one was refused (Irish painter Francis Bacon, 1967).[3] The Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida was awarded it twice (1964 for an individual sculpture, 1979 for his body of work). American painter Cecilia Beaux was the first woman awarded the Carnegie Prize (1899); German sculptor Rebecca Horn was the second woman (1988). South African artist William Kentridge was the first filmmaker awarded it (1999). Documenta, the German contemporary art exhibition, was the only organization awarded the prize (1979). English artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was the first woman of color awarded the prize (2018).
The Carnegie International's prize should not be confused with the Carnegie Prize of the National Academy of Design, the Carnegie Prize of the Society of American Artists, the Carnegie Art Award (Sweden), or with the Carnegie Medal (literary award).
List of Gold Medal winners
[edit | edit source]| Year | Artist | Image | Work | Collection | Notes |
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| Annual Exhibition at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute[4] | $1,500 cash award accompanied the gold medal | ||||
| 1896 1st |
John Lavery File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland |
File:Lavery Lady in Brown Carnegie Catalogue 1896 plate 23.jpg | Lady in Brown[4] | ||
| 1897 2nd |
James Jebusa Shannon File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Shannon Kitty c.1897 Carnegie Art Museum.jpg | Miss Kitty[5][6] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
The artist's daughter and two dogs |
| 1898 3rd |
Dwight William Tryon File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Tryon Early Spring in New England 1897 Smithsonian.jpg | Early Spring in New England[7] | Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
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| 1899 4th |
Cecilia Beaux File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Error creating thumbnail: | Mother and Daughter (Mrs. Clement Acton Griscom & Frances Canby Griscom) |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Gold Medal: 1900 Paris Exposition 1900 Temple Gold Medal (PAFA) First woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. (The next was not until 1988.) |
| 1900 5th |
André Dauchez File:Flag of France.svg France |
File:Dauchez KelpGatherers 1900catalogue no.52.jpg | The Kelp Gatherers | ||
| 1901 6th |
Alfred H. Maurer File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Arrangement.jpg | An Arrangement | Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, New York City |
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| 1902 7th |
Exhibition of loaned works.[4] No prizes awarded. |
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| 1903 8th |
Frank Weston Benson File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
A Woman Reading[8] | Beverly Arts Association, Chicago, Illinois |
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| 1904 9th |
Walter Elmer Schofield File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Schofield Across the River 1904 Carnegie Exhibition Catalogue.jpg | Across the River[9][10] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1905 10th |
Lucien Simon File:Flag of France.svg France |
File:Lucien Simon, 1904 - Soirée à l'Atelier.jpg | Evening in a Studio | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California |
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| 1906 | No annual exhibition (due to museum expansion)[4] |
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| 1907 11th |
Gaston La Touche File:Flag of France.svg France |
File:La Touche The Bath 1907.jpg | The Bath[4] | Ex collection: William S. Stimmel[11] Ex collection: University Club of Pittsburgh Sold at Dargate Auction Galleries, Pittsburgh, 7 October 2017.[12] | |
| 1908 12th |
Thomas W. Dewing File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:The Necklace SAAM-1929.6.40 2.jpg | The Necklace[4] | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. |
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| 1909 13th |
Edmund C. Tarbell File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Edmund Tarbell, 1904 - A Girl Crocheting.jpg | A Girl Crocheting[13] | Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, New York |
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| 1910 14th |
William Orpen File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland |
File:Portrait of the Artist by William Orpen. Figure in front with nude statue of a woman in the rear. LCCN2014688147.jpg | Portrait of the Artist (Venus and Myself)[14] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1911 15th |
John White Alexander File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:John-White-Alexander-Art-A-Ray-of-Sunlight-1898.jpg | A Ray of Sunlight (The Cellist) | private collection | |
| 1912 16th |
Charles Sims File:Flag of England.svg England |
File:SimsCharles Pastorella InternationalStudio June1912.jpg | Pastorella[15] | Ex collection: William S. Stimmel[11] | |
| 1913 17th |
Glyn Warren Philpot File:Flag of England.svg England |
File:Philpot MarbleWorker InternationalStudio June1913.jpg | The Marble Worker[16] | Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan |
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| 1914 18th |
Edward Redfield File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
The Village in Winter[17][18] | Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
Ex collection: William S. Stimmel[11] | |
| 1915–1919 | No annual exhibitions (due to World War I)[4] | ||||
| International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh[19] | Name change | ||||
| 1920 19th |
Abbot Henderson Thayer File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Thayer Young Woman in Olive Plush 1920 Carnegie Catalogue.jpg | Young Woman in Olive Plush (Woman in Green Velvet)[20] |
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
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| 1921 20th |
Ernest Lawson File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Vanishing Mist[21][22] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1922 21st |
George W. Bellows File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Bellows Eleanor Int.Studio June1922 p.208.jpg | Elinor, Jean and Anna[23] | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
The artist's aunt, daughter and mother 1921 Beck Gold Medal (PAFA) |
| 1923 22nd |
Arthur Bowen Davies File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Afterthoughts of Earth[24] | |||
| 1924 23rd |
Augustus John File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Wales |
Madame Suggia[25] | Tate Britain, London, UK |
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| 1925 24th |
Henri Le Sidaner File:Flag of France.svg France (born Mauritius) |
Window on the Bay of Villefranche[26] | Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia |
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| 1926 25th |
Ker-Xavier Roussel File:Flag of France.svg France |
The Garden (The Garden Window)[27] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1927 26th |
Henri Matisse File:Flag of France.svg France |
Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier[28] | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia |
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| 1928 27th |
André Derain File:Flag of France.svg France |
Still Life[29] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1929 28th |
Felice Carena File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy |
La Scuola[30] | Banca Monte dei Paschi Collection, Siena, Italy |
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| 1930 29th |
Pablo Picasso File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
Portrait of Mme Picasso[4] | private collection | ||
| 1931 30th |
Franklin C. Watkins File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Suicide in Costume[31] | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Depicts a dead man in clown costume holding a smoking gun. | |
| 1932 | No annual exhibition (due to severity of the Great Depression) |
Cash award reduced to $1,000 | |||
| 1933 31st |
André Dunoyer de Segonzac File:Flag of France.svg France |
Saint-Tropez | |||
| 1934 32nd |
Peter Blume File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States (born Russia) |
South of Scranton[32] | Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||
| 1935 33rd |
Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes y Gómez File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
Elvira and Tiberio[33] | Ex collection: Fine Arts Society of San Diego[33] Auctioned at Sotheby's NY, 18–19 November 1987[33] | ||
| 1936 34th |
Leon Kroll File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
The Road from the Cove[34] | private collection | ||
| 1937 35th |
Georges Braque File:Flag of France.svg France |
The Yellow Cloth (The Yellow Tablecloth)[4] | private collection | ||
| 1938 36th |
Karl Hofer File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
The Wind[35] | Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan |
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| 1939 37th |
Alexander Brook File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Georgia Jungle[36][37] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1940–1949 | No annual exhibitions (due to World War II). Instead, 9 exhibitions of American paintings.[4] |
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| Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting | Exhibition reorganized as a biennial Cash award increased to $2,000 | ||||
| 1950 38th |
Jacques Villon File:Flag of France.svg France |
The Thresher | Villon was a Cubist painter, and the brother of Marcel Duchamp. | ||
| 1951 | No exhibition | ||||
| 1952 39th |
Ben Nicholson File:Flag of England.svg England[4] |
Azure[38] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1953 & 1954 | No exhibitions | Exhibition reorganized as a triennial.[4] | |||
| 1955 40th |
Alfred Manessier File:Flag of France.svg France |
Crown of Thorns[39] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1956 & 1957 | No exhibitions | ||||
| Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture[2] | Gold Medal for Sculpture added | ||||
| 1958 41st Painting |
Antoni Tàpies File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
Painting[40] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1958 41st Sculpture |
Alexander Calder File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Pittsburghmobile.jpg | Mobile: Pittsburgh[41] | Pittsburgh International Airport | |
| 1959 & 1960 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1961 42nd Painting |
Mark Tobey File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Untitled[42] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1961 42nd Sculpture |
Alberto Giacometti File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland |
Walking Man 1[43] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1962 & 1963 | No exhibitions | ||||
| Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art | "The traditional award structure of numbered prizes has been eliminated in favor of equal awards, four for painting and two for sculpture, each in the amount of $2,000."[44] | ||||
| 1964 43rd Painting |
Ellsworth Kelly File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Blue, Black and Red | |||
| Victor Pasmore File:Flag of England.svg England |
Red Abstract No. 5[45] | Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, England. |
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| Antonio Saura File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
Imaginary Portrait of Goya[46] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Pierre Soulages File:Flag of France.svg France |
24 November '63[47] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Meditation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy | ||
| 1964 43rd Sculpture |
Jean Arp File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
Sculpture Classique[48] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Eduardo Chillida[49] File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
Modulation d'espace II[50] | Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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| 1965 & 1966 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1967 44th Painting |
Francis Bacon File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland |
Bacon refused the prize.[3] | |||
| Josef Albers File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States (born Germany) |
Homage to the Square: Vernal[51] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Joan Miró File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
Queen Louise of Prussia[52] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1967 44th Sculpture |
Victor Vasarely File:Flag of France.svg France (born Hungary) |
Alom[53] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1968 & 1969 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1970 45th |
No prizes awarded | ||||
| 1971–1976 | No exhibitions (due to construction of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Gallery).[4] |
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| Pittsburgh International Series | Exhibition reorganized as a biennial retrospective of a single artist's body of work. $50,000 Andrew W. Mellon Prize awarded to honoree.[54] | ||||
| 1977 46th |
Pierre Alechinsky File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium |
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| 1978 | No exhibition | ||||
| 1979 47th |
Willem de Kooning File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States (born Netherlands) |
$50,000 Andrew W. Mellon Prize split among 3 honorees | |||
| Eduardo Chillida[49] File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
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| Documenta II (1959), IV (1968) and VI (1977) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
International contemporary art exhibition held in Germany | ||||
| 1980 & 1981 | No exhibitions | ||||
| Carnegie International Exhibition | Exhibition re-established as a triennial $10,000 Carnegie International Prize | ||||
| 1982 48th |
No prizes awarded | ||||
| 1983 & 1984 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1985 49th Painting |
Anselm Kiefer File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
Midgard[55] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1985 49th Sculpture |
Richard Serra File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
File:Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh.jpg | Carnegie[56] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1986 & 1987 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1988 50th |
Rebecca Horn File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
The Hydra Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde[57] | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Assemblage of electrical devices, glass, coal and other objects Second woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. | |
| 1989 & 1990 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1991 51st |
On Kawara File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan |
Date Paintings[58] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1992–1994 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1995 52nd Painting |
Sigmar Polke File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany |
Hermes Trismegistos I-IV[59] | De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands |
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| 1995 52nd Sculpture |
Richard Artschwager File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
Table Prepared in the Presence of Enemies[60] | Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| 1996–1998 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 1999/2000 53rd |
William Kentridge Error creating thumbnail: South Africa |
Film: Stereoscope | First filmmaker awarded a Carnegie Prize. | ||
| 2001–2003 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 2004/2005 54th |
Kutlug Ataman File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey |
40-channel video installation: Kuba[61] | Interviews with residents of Kuba, a shanty town in Istanbul. | ||
| 2006 & 2007 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 2008 55th "Life on Mars" |
Vija Celmins File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States (born Latvia) |
Night Sky #12[62] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Third woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. | |
| 2009–2012 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 2013 56th |
Nicole Eisenman[63] File:Flag of France.svg France |
Figure paintings and sculpture | Fourth woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. | ||
| 2014–2017 | No exhibitions | ||||
| 2018 57th |
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye File:Flag of England.svg England |
Figure paintings and portraits | Fifth woman awarded a Carnegie Prize. First woman of color awarded a Carnegie Prize. | ||
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See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ a b The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, from Amazon.
- ^ a b Matthew Gale & Chris Stephens, Francis Bacon (Rizzoli International Publishing, 2009), p. 263.
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- ^ Miss Kitty, from CMoA
- ^ Miss Kitty, from SIRIS.
- ^ Early Spring in New England, from SIRIS.
- ^ A Woman Reading, from SIRIS.
- ^ Across the River, from CMoA.
- ^ Across the River, from SIRIS.
- ^ a b c Will J. Hyett, "Some Collections of Paintings in Pittsburgh," Art and Archaeology, vol. 14, nos. 5-6 (November/December 1922), p. 328.
- ^ The Bath, from LiveAuctioneers.
- ^ A Girl Crocheting, from SIRIS.
- ^ Venus and Myself, from CMoA.
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- ^ Village in Winter Archived 2018-12-29 at the Wayback Machine, from The Athenaeum.
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- ^ Woman in Green Velvet, from SIRIS.
- ^ Vanishing Mist, from CMoA.
- ^ Vanishing Mist, from SIRIS.
- ^ Elinor, Jean and Anna, from SIRIS.
- ^ Afterthoughts of Earth, from SIRIS.
- ^ Madame Suggia, from Tate Britain.
- ^ Window on the Bay of Villefranche, from Google Arts & Culture.
- ^ The Garden, from CMoA.
- ^ Still Life: Bouquet and Compotier, from VMFA.
- ^ Still Life, from CMoA.
- ^ La Scuola, from Artribune.
- ^ Suicide in Costume, from PMA.
- ^ South of Scranton, from MMA.
- ^ a b c Elvira and Tiberio, from San Diego State University.
- ^ Road from the Cove, from SIRIS.
- ^ The Wind, from DIA.
- ^ Georgia Jungle, from CMoA.
- ^ Georgia Jungle, from SIRIS.
- ^ Azure, from CMoA.
- ^ Crown of Thorns, from CMoA.
- ^ Painting, from CMoA.
- ^ Pittsburgh (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ^ Untitled, from CMoA.
- ^ Walking Man 1, from CMoA.
- ^ Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Carnegie Institute, Dept. of Fine Arts, 1964), p. 16.
- ^ Red Abstract No. 5, from Art UK.
- ^ Imaginary Portrait of Goya, from CMoA.
- ^ 24 November '63, from CMoA.
- ^ Sculpture Classique, from CMoA.
- ^ a b Ken Johnson, "Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor on a Grand Scale, Dies at 78," The New York Times, 22 August 2002.
- ^ Modulation d'espace, (PDF) Archived 2018-12-30 at the Wayback Machine from Lehmbruck Museum.
- ^ Homage to the Square: Vernal, from CMoA.
- ^ Queen Louise of Prussia, from CMoA.
- ^ Alom, from CMoA.
- ^ Nicole F. Scalissi, "Art of the People: Pierre Alechinsky and the CoBrA Movement," from CMoA.
- ^ Midgard, from CMoA.
- ^ Carnegie, from CMoA.
- ^ The Hydra Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde, from SFMOMA.
- ^ Date Paintings, from CMoA.
- ^ Hermes Trismegistos I-IV, from De Pont Museum.
- ^ Table Prepared in the Presence of Enemies, from CMoA.
- ^ Oskar Czerniawski, "Kutlug Ataman's Kuba offers a window into a community," Culture24, from Arts Council England.
- ^ Night Sky #12, from CMoA.
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