Untitled, 1966 | Judd Foundation

Donald Judd
Untitled, 1966

Burnt sienna enamel on cold-rolled steel
4 units, each 40 × 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm)

Artist

Donald Judd 89

Type

Object 60

Date

1960s 68

Location

The Block 27

Exhibited outdoors in Toronto in 1967 and at Dan Flavin’s retrospective in New York in 1970, the enamel surface of this work sustained damage; subsequently, Donald Judd used this object to test methods of repair, which resulted in the varied surfaces of the individual units. “Four units in a row are only that,” Judd wrote in 1993. “They are not part of infinity, either endless or above or within. They are a small, finite order that I am interested in.”¹

¹Donald Judd, “Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular” (1993), in Donald Judd Writings, ed. Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray (New York: Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, 2016), 853.

Selected Bibliography

Lord, Barry. “Sculpture in the Summer.” Artscanada, October 1967, 6 (ill.).

Kingsley, April. “New York Letter.” Art International, January 1973, 65.

Smith, Brydon, ed. Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects, and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974. Exh. cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1975, 143 (DSS cat. no. 88).

Raskin, David. Donald Judd. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010, 32 (fig. 33), 33.

1 Donald Judd, “Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular” (1993), in Donald Judd Writings, ed. Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray (New York: Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, 2016), 853.

Selected Bibliography

¹Donald Judd, “Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular” (1993), in Donald Judd Writings, ed. Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray (New York: Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, 2016), 853.