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Remembering Louise Nevelson on her birthday 🎂
📷 Ara Güler, c.1974
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"I don’t like the safe way, it limits you. One has to have courage and one has to gamble with life to really move into the areas where they can fulfil themselves."

Louise Nevelson by Hans Namuth, 1977
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"While it’s risky to conflate the artist with the art, in Nevelson’s case her public persona was an extension of her sculptural practice: another fabulist, layered creation."
- Andrea K. Scott

Louise Nevelson's hands at work
📷 Lewis Brown, between 1964 and 1975
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Louise Nevelson by Arnold Newman, NY 1980
Newman told her grand-daughter Maria "how he photographed Nevelson at the Whitney in 1980 the day she learned her brother died. With her insistence, they continued the photo session even though she was visibly upset."

Remembering Louise Nevelson on her birthday.
What an extraordinary person!
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Here's Louise Nevelson with her high school basketball team in 1913. She's the captain: 4th from the left.
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Louise Nevelson
White Vertical Water, 1971
@Guggenheim
"I once asked Josef Albers if he was a great reader and he said, 'If I wanted to read, I’d write my own book.'"

Louise Nevelson
Luminous Zag: Night, 1971
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"There hasn’t been a surprise in my life. In my darkest moments, I was never not with what I was doing. My life was important to me—I certainly expected it to be what it is."

Louise Nevelson
Untitled, 1967
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"My work is the mirror of my consciousness. In my own work, I think there is a beyondness, some call it mystery. It contains the awareness of love, or sorrow, all the human emotions."

Louise Nevelson
Black wall, 1959
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"I fell in love with black; it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color... Black is the most aristocratic color of all... You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing."

Louise Nevelson by Ara Güler, c.1974
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"Her black walls lived in shadow and drew sustenance from it, and a large public found in her work a satisfaction that it found nowhere else in modern art."
- John Russell

Louise Nevelson by Arnold Newman, New York, 1972
"Life isn’t one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom."