East New York Shrine

DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)
East New York Shrine
signed, inscribed and dated 'HOLY MOTHER LOADED WITH GRACE PLEASE HELP JEANIE SONJA AND DAN FLAVIN 1962-1966' (upper edge)
tin can, porcelain receptacle, Aerolux bulb, pull chain and rosary beads
11 ⅜ x 4 ½ x 4 ½ in. (30 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm.)
Executed in 1962-1966. This work is from an edition of ten of which only eight were fabricated.

PROVENANCE
Parasol Press, Portland
Private collection, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner


EXHIBITED
New York, Kaymar Gallery, Dan Flavin: Some Light, March 1964 (another example exhibited).
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery and New York, Jewish Museum, Fluorescent Light, etc. From Dan Flavin, September 1969-March 1970, pp. 132-133, 158 and 191 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Seattle, Donald Young Gallery, Dan Flavin: Selected Works 1964-1990, January-March 1994.


LITERATURE
J. Burnham, "A Dan Flavin Retrospective in Ottawa," Artforum, December 1969, pp. 51-52.
"Dan Flavin Retrospective from Vancouver, B.C.," Northwest Art: News and Views 1, January-February 1970, p. 26 (illustrated).
W. S. Wilson, "Dan Flavin: Fiat Lux," Art News, January 1970, p. 48.
Drawing and Diagrams from Dan Flavin 1963-1972; Corners, Barriers and Corridors in Fluorescent Light from Dan Flavin, exh. cat., The St. Louis Art Museum, 1973, p. 28.
J. Meyer, Minimalism, London, 2000, p. 92 (illustrated).
J. Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, New Haven, 2001, p. 96 (illustrated).
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, 2004, pp. 28 and 214-215, fig. 14 (illustrated).
M. Govan and T. Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights: 1961-1996, New York, 2005, p. 214, no. 9 (illustrated).

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