- Artist
- Sue Fuller 1914–2006
- Medium
- Plastic threads, wood, fabric and metal
- Dimensions
- Unconfirmed: 914 × 914 × 38 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Emerson Crocker through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
- Reference
- T00757
Catalogue entry
Sue Fuller born 1914T00757 String Composition No.128 1964
Inscribed '# 128' b.l. and '(c) Sue Fuller '64' b.r. (both scratched on the frame)
Construction of plastic threads with wood, cloth and integral metal frame, 36 x 36 x 1 1/2 (91.5 x 91.5 x 4)
Presented by Emerson Crocker through the American Federation of Arts 1965
Prov: Emerson Crocker, Elgin, Illinois (purchased from the artist through the Bertha Schaefer Gallery for presentation)
Exh: Sue Fuller, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, May-June 1965 (no catalogue)
Repr: Michael Compton, Optical and Kinetic Art (London 1967), pl.6; Cyril Barrett, An Introduction to Optical Art (London 1971), p.144
The artist wrote of this (letter of 30 November 1965):
'STRING COMPOSITION No.128 ISPublished in:a linear geometric progression
a constructiona line drawing
in a 20th century medium
plastic monofilament.as old as the human race
a drawing in string
a cat's cradle
cf Kathleen Haddon Cambridge
W. W. Rouse Ball Oxfordas timeless as a linear
geometric progressionas immanent as space travel
the expanding universe'
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.228-9, reproduced p.228
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