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Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Wednesday, April 14th. His sketches are the mental blueprints to his massive steel sculptures, and are drawn in thick grease crayon laid out in blocks of flat black. The show includes work from Serra's early days in the ’70s to more recent sketches of his work for Bilbao Guggenheim. Of note are his sketches for Tilted Arc and US Government Destroys Art. These were for Serra's 1981 sculpture that was removed from the Manhattan Federal Plaza for obstructing the entrance and being an "eyesore." [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
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Untitled, 1971
Charcoal on paper; 26 1/4 x 40 in.
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Untitled, 1972
Charcoal on paper; 29 3/4 x 41 1/2 in.
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Untitled, 1972–1973
Paintstick on paper; 37 13/16 x 50 in.
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Heir, 1973
Paintstick and graphite on paper; 9 ft. 6 5/8 in. x 42 1/4 in.
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Untitled, 1973
Paintstick and charcoal on paper; 50 x 38 in.
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Institutionalized Abstract Art, 1976/2011
Paintstick drawn on the wall of the Art Institute of Chicago on the occasion of the seventy-second American exhibition, 86 x 89 in.
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Blank, 1978
Paintstick on Belgian linen; 2 parts, each 10 ft. 1/4 in. x 10 ft. 1/4 in.
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Notebook: Tilted Arc, 1988
Charcoal on paper; sheet: 18 x 24 in.
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Notebook: Saqqara pyramid, Egypt, 1990
Charcoal on paper; sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.
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Notebook: Double Torqued Ellipses, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, 2005
Paintstick on paper; sheet: 12 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.
