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Kenneth Snelson
Kenneth Snelson Vintage C-Print Panoramic Photograph of Paris Chromogenic Photo

1985

About the Item

Kenneth Snelson (American, 1927-2016). Photograph depicting a panorama of the Seine river and bridges in Paris, France Hand signed, dated 1985, numbered 5/6, lower right. Provenance: Collection of Bruce Dayton & Ruth Stricker Dayton, Minnesota. Sight; Height: 10 1/4 in x width: 46 1/2 in. Framed; Height: 18 in x width: 55 in. Snelson produced expansive photographs of New York City using a Cirkut camera, which records a 360-degree view in a single frame. He has work in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA NY) and his sculptures are shown at Marlborough Gallery. Kenneth Duane Snelson (1927 – 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity'. Snelson preferred the descriptive term floating compression. Snelson said his former professor Buckminster Fuller took credit for Snelson's discovery of the concept that Fuller named tensegrity. Fuller gave the idea its name, combining 'tension' and 'structural integrity.' Kārlis Johansons had exhibited tensegrity sculptures several years before Snelson was even born. The height and strength of Snelson's sculptures, which are often delicate in appearance, depend on the tension between rigid pipes and flexible cables. Snelson was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1927. He studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at the Black Mountain College, and with Fernand Léger in Paris. His sculpture and photography have been exhibited at over 25 one-man shows in galleries around the world including the structurally seminal Park Place Gallery in New York in the 1960s. Snelson also did research on the shape of the atom. Snelson continued to work in his SoHo studio, occasionally collaborating with animator Jonathan Monaghan. He lived in New York City with his wife, Katherine. He held five United States patents: #3,169,611: Discontinuous Compression Structures, February 1965; #3,276,148: Model for Atomic Forms, October 1966; #4,099,339: Model for Atomic Forms, July 1978; and #6,017,220: Magnetic Geometric Building System; and most recently, #6,739,937: Space Frame Structure Made by 3-D Weaving of Rod Members, May 25, 2004. Snelson was a founding member of ConStruct, the artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States. Other founding members include Mark di Suvero, John Raymond Henry, Lyman Kipp and Charles Ginnever. Honours and awards (1999) Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center. Select Public Sculptures Needle Tower, 1968, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Untitled Maquette, 1975, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Smithsonian E.C. Column, 1969–81, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Fair Leda, 1969, Nelson Rockefeller Estate Free Ride Home, 1974, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville Mozart II, 1982, Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Garden at Pepsico, Purchase Sun River, 1967, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York One World Trade Center antenna/spire, 2006, One World Trade Center, New York Forest Devil, 1975–77, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Soft Landing, 1975–77, Berlin Nationalgalerie, Berlin Osaka, 1970, Japan Iron & Steel Federation, Kobe T-Zone Flight, 1995, JT Building, Toranomon, Tokyo Landing, 1970, Wakayama Prefecture Museum, Wakayama Snelson was a founding member of ConStruct, an artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States. Other founding members include Mark di Suvero, John Raymond Henry, Lyman Kipp, and Charles Ginnever. Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton, whose collection this came from, were major art collectors and philanthropists their collection included Auguste Rodin, Henri-Edmond Cross, Gabriele Münter, Henri Matisse, and works by Albert André and Louis Hayet. He donated works by Édouard Manet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Frank Stella as well as superb examples of Asian and Chinese art and furniture.
  • Creator:
    Kenneth Snelson (1927 - 2016, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1985
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 55 in (139.7 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    frame is structurally sound but has some wear to finish. Light waving to photo.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3829788272
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