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Richard Tuttle

1941

SculptureInstallation ArtMinimalism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

223

Works in Collection

471

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Movements

• Installation Art
• Minimalism

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About

Why this artist matters now

Richard Tuttle makes small-scale sculptures, drawings, and installations that operate through radical reduction of line and material. Working across sculpture, painting, printmaking, and artist's books, he privileges restraint and intimacy over monumentality, allowing modest gestures, a single wire, a folded paper, a length of string, to generate spatial and perceptual consequence. Based in New York, New Mexico, and Maine, Tuttle's practice emerged from postminimalism's critique of the grand gesture, instead proposing that attention itself, rather than scale or spectacle, constitutes the work's primary medium.

Source: Pace Gallery · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Installation Art

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Sculpture

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (223)

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Blossom

2017 · Etching in four colors with chine collé and red pen addition by the artist

Sheet: 22 × 11 in. (55.9 × 27.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chiaroscuro

2016 · Woodcut

composition: 3 9/16 × 4 15/16" (9.1 × 12.5 cm); sheet: 21 11/16 × 18 1/16" (55.1 × 45.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Unicorn-in-Capture

2014 · Lithograph

composition: 21 3/4 × 25 1/2" (55.3 × 64.8 cm); sheet: 25 × 33" (63.5 × 83.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Temporary

2014 · Multiple of painted wood and polycarbonate sheet

overall: 12 × 12 × 3" (30.5 × 30.5 × 7.6 cm); sheet: 12 × 12" (30.5 × 30.5 cm); cube (each): 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1 1/2" (3.8 × 3.8 × 3.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Around the House

2014 · Etching with die-cut

plate: 13 7/8 × 9 15/16" (35.3 × 25.2 cm); sheet: 15 15/16 × 11 15/16" (40.5 × 30.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2013 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 9 15/16 × 7 13/16" (25.2 × 19.8 cm); sheet: 19 15/16 × 17 7/8" (50.7 × 45.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When Pressure Exceeds Weight IX

2013 · Handmade paper relief

sheet: 7 1/4 x 15" (18.4 x 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When Pressure Exceeds Weight XI

2013 · Handmade paper relief

sheet: 26 1/2 x 21" (67.3 x 53.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Pace Gallery

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Whitney Museum of American Art

Market

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Auction house

Christie's

Background

Education

Trinity College

Visual Arts

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Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition Richard Tuttle

2026