Summer's Gone II
Lee Kelly, Summer's Gone II, 1960, welded bronze, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund and the Jeannette Kelly Memorial Fund, © Lee Kelly, 61.24
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- Title
Summer's Gone II
- Artist
- Date
1960
- Medium
welded bronze
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
63 3/4 in x 23 in x 16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
date: 60, relief, on underside of lowest projecting limb, to right of signature
signature: K, relief, on underside of lowest projecting limb
signature/maker's mark/date:
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art; Northwest Art
- Category
Sculpture
- Object Type
sculpture
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund and the Jeannette Kelly Memorial Fund
- Accession Number
61.24
- Copyright
© Lee Kelly
- Terms
Lee Kelly came of age during the 1960s, at a time when abstract expressionism was being superseded by minimalism. As a student at the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art), Kelly had worked with the painter Louis Bunce and also with sculptor Frederic Littman. From his earlier focus on painting, Kelly gradually moved toward sculpture, teaching himself welding. With its swelling, budding forms and soft patina, this early sculpture, Summer’s Gone II, shows Kelly’s debt to the teachings of Bunce and his interest in organic forms. He was later to abandon this more figurative style in favor of pieces (like the Museum’s Arlie [81.8]) that focus on simplified, geometric forms and the use of industrial materials such as Corten steel.