Untitled, 1962 | Judd Foundation

In 1975, Roberta Smith wrote of this piece, “An extraneous object is set into a densely coloured, textured ground, contributing its own intrinsic colour and surface. . . . The extraneous materials, such as the copper disc, were usually what was available, often from the street; the part suggested a certain unusual use and placement.”¹

In works from the late 1980s and early1990s, several which he installed at his Ranch Office, Judd returned to this practice of including found objects in square reliefs. See for example untitled, 1992 in which Judd placed a rusted cast iron found object into the square plywood surface.

¹Roberta Smith, “Donald Judd,” in Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonnéof Paintings, Objects, and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974, ed. Brydon Smith. Exh. cat. (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1975), 19.

Selected Bibliography

Smith, Brydon, ed. Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects, and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974. Exh. cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1975, 19, 110 (DSS cat. no. 31).

Kellein, Thomas. Donald Judd. Early Work 1955–1968. Exh. cat. New York: D.A.P., 2002, 81 (ill.), 154.

Kalina, Richard. “Working Things Out.” Art in America, November 2003, 122.

Serota, Nicholas, ed. Donald Judd. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2004, 140 (ill.).

Stockebrand, Marianne, ed. Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014, 201, 202 (fig. 3).

1Roberta Smith, “Donald Judd,” in Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonnéof Paintings, Objects, and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974, ed. Brydon Smith. Exh. cat. (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1975), 19.

Selected Bibliography

¹Roberta Smith, “Donald Judd,” in Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonnéof Paintings, Objects, and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974, ed. Brydon Smith. Exh. cat. (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1975), 19.