ROBERT SMITHSON | Broken Circle/Spiral Hill

John Weber Gallery, New York
Collection of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Vancouver Art Gallery; Calgary, The Nickle Arts Museum; New York, Seagram Building; Ontario, London Regional Art Gallery, Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagram Collection, May 1984 - June 1985, p. 63, illustrated
Siegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Reykjavík Art Museum, Robert Smithson: The Invention of Landscape, Broken Circle/Spiral Hill & Film, March 2012 - April 2013, p. 122, illustrated

Eugenie Tsai, Ed., Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings, New York 1991, fig. 74, p. 189, illustrated 

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board at the top edge. The left edge of the sheet is deckled. There is pale time staining with some minor discoloration to the perimeter of the sheet. Under very close inspection, there are a few scattered minor abrasions to the edge of the sheet. There are a few scattered pinpoint accretions, particularly in the upper right quadrant, only viewable upon close inspection. Framed under glass.
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This work is the study for the realized earthwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, 1971.