This piece was fabricated in 1967 by Bernstein Brothers Sheet Metal Specialties, Inc., a sheet metal shop in New York that Donald Judd worked with for much of his life.

On January 13, 1990, in Cologne, Judd wrote in a short note: “Perhaps the point at which a piece of mine becomes good is when it opens toward many possibilities. One good piece naturally becomes a category of good pieces. For example, that is the case with the 100 aluminum pieces and not the case, and so the problem, with the concrete pieces.”¹ This work shares its exterior dimensions with Judd’s 100 works in mill aluminum, 1982–86, at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, made more than a decade later.

Judd installed his first work in clear anodized aluminum, untitled, 1966, at 101 Spring Street.

¹ Donald Judd, note from 13 January 1990, in Donald Judd Writings, ed. Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray (New York: Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, 2016), 617.