Donald Judd #7

Donald Judd's studio, 101 Spring Street, New York, 1st Floor, 1974. Donald Judd is seated on the desk, surrounded by his students in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program seminar. On Judd’s left is Ron Clark and on his right is Julian Schnabel. (foto: Barbara Quinn(?))


101 Spring Street, New York, 1st Floor. (foto: Joshua White)


(foto: Mauricio Alejo)


101 Spring Street, New York, 2nd Floor.


101 Spring Street, New York, 3nd Floor.


101 Spring Street, New York, 4nd Floor.


101 Spring Street, New York, 5nd Floor. (foto's: Joshua White)

"From 1968 until his death in 1994, the sculptor Donald Judd used this 1870 cast-iron loft building as his home and studio. Here he had the opportunity to demonstrate his ideas about art installation. Judd’s use of the building is seen as part of the rise of the SoHo artistic community in New York City.

Donald Judd revolutionized practices and attitudes surrounding art-making and the exhibition of art, advocating for the permanent installation of works by artists in carefully considered environments. Judd achieved this goal first at his studio/residence at 101 Spring Street in New York, and later in various locations in and around Marfa, Texas.

Judd filled 101 Spring Street with nearly 2,000 objects (200 pieces of art and furniture, 1,800 household objects), from rare prototypes and seminal works to prosaic furnishings he used everyday. His collection spans centuries of art and design, and reflects his personal interest in art and well-made things: paintings, sculpture and works on paper by Jean Arp, Larry Bell, John Chamberlain, Honoré Daumier, Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, Lucas Samaras, Frank Stella, and H.C. Westermann; furniture, including pieces by Alvar Aalto, Gerrit Rietveld, and the Thonet firm; and ceremonial and decorative objects and textiles from Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. Judd included his own artwork as well as furniture he designed.

After 1972 Judd spent some of his time in Marfa, Texas, but he continued to use 101 Spring Street as a live/work studio until his death in 1994." (bron: Historic Artists' Homes & Studios)

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