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Untitled
1973 · Pencil on paper
27 x 39 3/8" (68.6 x 100 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Reg Butler
1913
Sculpture
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19
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34
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52
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Thirty Sculptors' Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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British Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Drawings from the Kr�ller-M�ller National Museum, Otterlo
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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The Artist as Adversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Reg Butler was a British sculptor who pioneered welded steel construction as a primary medium in postwar European art. Working primarily in iron and steel, he created abstract monumental forms that synthesized constructivist principles with organic, figural references. His open-frame sculptures and maquettes established welded metal as a central language for modernist abstraction in the 1950s. Butler's practice bridged geometric formalism and humanist concerns, influencing subsequent generations of steel sculptors.
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