Lucinda Childs

Dance #5

1979

Thin black lines stand, then leap, in arcs across a red backdrop

Thin black lines stand, then leap, in arcs across a red backdrop

Not on view

Date
1979

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fiber-tipped pen on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 11 1/16 in. (35.6 × 28.1 cm)

Accession number
2009.160

Credit line
Gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© Lucinda Childs

API
artworks/35671

Exhibitions

Installation photography

Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979; Nam June Paik, Fin de Siècle II, 1989 (partially restored, 2018); Rafaël Rozendaal, Abstract Browsing 17 03 05 (Google), 2017. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014. On floor, left to right: Lucinda Childs, Dance #1, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #2, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #3, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014. On floor, left to right: Lucinda Childs, Dance #1, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #2, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #3, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014. On floor, left to right: Lucinda Childs, Dance #1, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #2, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #3, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014. On floor, left to right: Lucinda Childs, Dance #1, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #2, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #3, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014. On floor, left to right: Lucinda Childs, Dance #1, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #2, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #3, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). From left to right: Sol LeWitt and Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Casey Reas, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #358, 2004 and 2016; Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, Dance, 1979 and 2014. On floor, left to right: Lucinda Childs, Dance #1, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #2, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #3, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #4, 1979; Lucinda Childs, Dance #5, 1979. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018

See also

Lucinda Childs
5 works in the collection, 3 exhibitions

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