Artist: Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988)
Nationality: Russian-American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Sculpture,Painting.Printmaking
Influences:

Biography:
Born in Russia, Louise Nevelson’s family moved to the United States in 1905. In 1920, she moved to New York City and began studying at the Art Students League in 1929. She then traveled to Munich to study under Hans Hofmann. From 1932 to 1933, Nevelson was an assistant to Diego Rivera while he was painting frescoes in New York City. In 1932, Nevelson began creating sculpture, turning to abstract wooden pieces in 1944. Her famous wall pieces were first created at the end of the 1950’s. In the 1960’s, she expanded to incorporate more materials into her sculpture such as aluminum and steel.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Museum of Fine Arts -
© 2001 Estate of Louise Nevelson/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Louise Nevelson,
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Louise Nevelson Inner View Color lithograph with collage 1965
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Louise Nevelson Cat Etching and aquatint on Rives BFK paper 1965
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Louise Nevelson Title: Figure Date: 1953 - 1955 Medium: etching and aquatint Dimensions: H.13-11/16
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Louise Nevelson Sunken Cathedral etching and drypointon Japan paper 1953 - 1955
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Louise Nevelson Dawnscape Cast paper pulp 1978
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Louise Nevelson - End of Day Nightscape V 1973 painted wood The McNay Art Museum American
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Louise Nevelson - Ancient City 1945-1955 Painted Wood Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Black Wall 1964 painted wood constru Hirshhorn Museum American
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Louise Nevelson - Moon Fountain 1957 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Winter Garden 1975 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Night Landscape 1955 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Full Moon 1980 Cast polyester resin The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Homage to the World 1966 painted wood The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Hanging Column 1959 painted wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Sky Cathedral/ Southern Mountain 1959 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Hanging Column (from Dawn's Wedding Feast) 1959 painted wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Lullaby for Jumbo from Façade: In Homage to Edith Sitwell 1966 photo silkscreen and Arkansas Arts Center American
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Louise M. Glazier Bookplate: Ex Libris, Louise M. Glazier wood engraving 1900
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Louise-Antoinette Feuardent
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Louise Brongniart 1777 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Francisco de Goya - Therese Louise de Sureda c. 1803-1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848), 1789 Élisabeth Louise Vigée
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Bacchante oil on canvas 1785
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John Singer Sargent - Portraits de M.E.P. . . .et de Mlle L.P. (Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron) 1881 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Anonymous Marie Josephe Louise de Savoie 19th century
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Loiuse de Keroualle
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Anonymous Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise Lithograph 19th century
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy) 1887 Oil on canvas
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Jean Antoine Houdon - Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domageville de Serilly, Comtesse de Pange n.d. marble The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Charles Dorman Robinson Lake Louise oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Morris Henry Hobbs Louise Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Charles Edward Wagstaff Louise de Querouvaille, Duchess of Portsmouth 19th century
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Mondain Marie Louise engraving and etching 19th century
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Francois-Seraphin Delpech Louise deSavoy , Duchess of d,Angouleme 1500 18th - 19th century
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Nicolas de Larmessin Portrait of Elisabeth Marie Louise Infante De Portugal 17th - 18th century
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Elisabeth Louise de duchesse de Chabot La Rochefoucauld Visit to Grandfather graphite and black chalk under ink with watercolor 18th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Louise Halévy Reclining
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Louise-Josephine Sarazin de Belmont The Falls at Tivoli oil on paper laid on canvas 1826
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Louise-Josephine Sarazin de Belmont View of the Falls at Tivoli (Vues des Cascades de Tivoli) oil on canvas circa 1826
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Louise-Madeleine Cochin Seance Ordinare des Etats de Languedoc Etching 18th - 19th century
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Fl¸gel Marie Louise d'Autriche, Imperatrice des Francais, Reine d'Italie stipple engraving 19th century
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, (formerlyCount.of Mornington) oil on canvas 1791
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Jean Baptist Louis Massard Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise ,Archduchess of Austria 18th - 19th century
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Gustav Adolf Muller Louise Elisabeth VigeÈ Le Brun de l'AcadÈmie Royale de Peinture 18th century
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Charles Melchoir Descourtis Frederique Louise Wilhelmine de Prusse Aquatint in colors 18th - 19th century
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Stephen de Hospodar Louise, sixteenth plate in the book Block Prints (Los Angeles: privately printed, 1932) woodcut 1932
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Louise Halévy Reading to Degas
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Louise Bourgeois - Quarantania, III 1949-50 bronze The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise B. Maloney - Antonia 1923 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Spider 1996-1997 bronze National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Spring 1949 balsa wood National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Mortise 1950 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Cherwak - The Survivor 1999 graphite on paper Polk Museum of Art American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Self-portrait Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)Oil on canvas; Oval, 25 1/4 x 21
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Self-Portrait c. 1781 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
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Louise Galtier-BoissiËre [Fountain seen through trees] - from the Portfolio Les Cartons D'Estampes GravÈes Sur Bois, Ouvrage Corporative (Portfolio of wood engravings after works of various French artists) wood engraving 1919
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Sandra Louise Skoglund - Fox Games 1989 Cibachrome print Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Lidded Bowl on Dish
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Louise Galtier-BoissiËre [Still Life with Vase of Flowers] - from the Portfolio Les Cartons D'Estampes GravÈes Sur Bois, Ouvrage Corporative (Portfolio of wood engravings after works of various French artists) wood engraving 1919
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Comtesse Louise-Rose-Julie Duvidal De Montferrier Bacchus Enfant...sixty seventh plate in the book...Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 Lithograph 18th
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Artist: Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun Title: Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr
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Louise Bourgeois - Sleeping Figure 1950 painted balsa wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Articulated Lair 1986 painted steel, rubbe The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - The Winged Figure 1948-1991 bronze National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Untitled (with foot) 1989 pink marble Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun - Portrait of a Young Boy 1817 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts French
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - The Comte de Vandreuil 1784 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
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Louise B. Maloney - Cat-Tails and Honesty 1931 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Crispijn I de Passe Louise Julienne, Wife to Frederick IV, Elector Palatinate of the Rhine Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery ; Larry Calcagno, American, 1913-1993 Night Phenomena: Arizona Red 1962 Oil on
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Four Wall Lights
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (1726-1759), Later Duchesse d"Orléans Jean Marc Nattier (French, 1685-1766)Oil on canvas;
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Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1747-1815), 1787 Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)Oil on
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Paul Weber, German, 1823-1916 Swiss Landscape 1859 Graphite Sheet: 16.3 x 13.9 cm (6 7/16
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Louise Halévy
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Alexandre Calame, Swiss, 1810-1864 Swiss Landscape 1844 Watercolor on paper Sheet: 20.2 x 27.4 cm
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun - Portrait of Princess Belozersky 1798 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts French
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun - Portrait of a Russian Countess 1797 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts French
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Portrait of Madame du Barry 1782 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art French
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Sandra Louise Skoglund - Babies at Paradise Pond 1996 lithograph Smith College Museum of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - The Blind Leading The Blind 1947-1949 painted wood constru Hirshhorn Museum American
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William Hart, American, 1823-1894 River in Autumn 1863 Oil on canvas 46.35 x 82.55 cm
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Willem Roelofs, Netherlandish, 1822-1897 River Landscape 19th century Watercolor on paper 49 x 70 cm
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842 Study of a Woman undated Red chalk Sheet:
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Eyes, 1982 Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911)Marble; H. 74-3/4, W. 54, D. 45-3/4 in.
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George Inness, American, 1825-1894 The Church Spire 1875 Oil on canvas 51.12 x 76.52 cm
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George Caleb Bingham, American, 1811-1879 Landscape with Waterwheel and Boy Fishing Oil on canvas 63.82
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Portrait of Theresa, Countess Kinsky 1793 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum French
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun - Portrait of Madame Therese Vestris 1803 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts French
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Louise Moillon - Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries and Gooseberries 1630 Oil on panel Norton Simon Museum French
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Johann Christian Rauschner, American, 1760–after 1812 Portrait of Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner United States, Massachusetts,
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Johann Christian Rauschner, American, 1760–after 1812 Portrait of Mrs. Catherine C. Hillier Graupner United States,
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun - Princess Eudocia Nanovna Galitzine as Flora 1799 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts French
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Bernard Palissy Pitcher with Lid pewter and tin-glazed earthenware 1692
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucqoi 1793 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun - Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France c. 1788 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art French
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Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of a Woman (Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque) Albumen print mounted to a heavier sheet 1868
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Louise Moillon - Still Life with a Basket of Fruit and a Bunch of Asparagus 1630 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Louise Balthy from the portfolio Portraits d'Acteurs & d'Actrices: Treize Lithographies lithograph 1898

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
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Everson Art Museum: Louise Nevelson's Facade: An Homage to Edith Sitwell
Her Façade suite of 1967 is comprised of twelve prints that involve photography, silkscreen, and collage on paper and acetate sheets. The series was created in homage to Dame Edith Sitwell, the ...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Louise Nevelson
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. I don’t think you can touch a thing that cannot be rehabilitated into another life. And once I gave the whole world life in that sense I co...
ASU Art Museum: The Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art
The exhibition will include works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Robert Morris and will...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Magician and the Mechanic: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Early Years
The prints on display are drawn from SDMA’s collection with additional works generously lent by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, all of which were donated to their respective museums by San Diego residents Martin and Enid Gleich. Curated...
Ella Sharp Museum: Call for Artists: Opportunity for Public Exposure of Artwork on a Major Corporate Campus & Sale of Existing Work
A Design Review Board will select one piece that will serve as the focal point of Consumers Energy's corporate plaza. Three additional pieces will be selected for installation along the stretch of the Grand River Arts Walk closest to the corpor...
Contemporary Arts Center: Slide Show
Slide Show is a series of 18 installations that range from single-carousel pieces to more cinematic presentations created with multiple projectors. Through the remarkably simple technology of a slide projector and color transparencies, artists fou...
Contemporary Arts Center: Kendell Geers: Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Geers employs a fully integrated approach to art and life calling into question his own conflicted ancestry as a white South African. He has exhibited extensively around the world, most notably he has participat...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the beginning was MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters until today
He used the term MERZ for a concept which united all his artistic activities, naming his works MERZ drawings, MERZ paintings, MERZ sculptures, MERZ publications. He also organi...
Contemporary Arts Center: Sanford Biggers: both/and not either/or
For the CAC, Biggers will produce a new exhibition environment entitled “Both/And Not Either/Or.” The exhibition will focus on a bell choir ceremony in Japan where he explores the connection between contemporary and ancestral.  Biggers’ exhibition...
Contemporary Arts Center: Nothing Compared to This: Ambient, Incidental and New Minimal Tendencies in Current Art
Nothing Compared to This looks at the works of artists who occupy and control space by subtle, often indirect, means. The most salient distinction of today’s art in this vein, however, is that it is often not meant to be contemplated, or even dire...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...

Further Artwork and Information:

Louise Nevelson Online
Louise Nevelson Oral History Interview Conducted by Arnald Glimcher for the Archives of American Art, 1972
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Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Nevelson
Whitney Museum of American Art
Louise Nevelson - Reference Page
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Nevelson - Biography
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