Variations on a Theme of "Callery-Léger"
1955 · Screenprint
Museum of Modern Art
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Mary Callery
1903
Mixed MediaAbstract ExpressionismExpressionism
Representation
None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
4
Works in Collection
8
Assets Indexed
1
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Expressionism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Birds and Beasts from the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Art Lending Service Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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Recent Sculpture U.S.A.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Selections from the Art Lending Service
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
About
Why this artist matters now
Mary Callery was an American sculptor working in welded metal and abstract forms during the mid-twentieth century. A key figure in the New York School of the 1940s, 1960s, she developed a distinctive vocabulary of geometric and biomorphic shapes that bridged Constructivism and Abstract Expressionism. Her welded steel and bronze works, often monumental in scale, combine rigorous structural logic with gestural, organic curves. Callery's practice helped establish welded metal as a primary medium for American sculptors of her generation.
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Abstract Expressionism
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Mixed Media
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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