Artist Monograph

Reuben Nakian, American

American, 1897–1986

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	3	33.3%
Lithography	2	22.2%
Drawing	2	22.2%
Sculpture	1	11.1%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	5	55.6%
Painting & Sculpture	4	44.4%

Production by Decade

4

1950s

4

1960s

1

1980s

Classification Types

Sculpture — 4
Print — 2
Drawing — 2
Illustrated Book — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	2	25%
Medium (30–100 cm)	5	62.5%
Large (1–3 m)	1	12.5%

Range: 28.5 cm → 283.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1959	1
1960	1
1965	1
1966	1
1967	1
1968	2
1988	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 9 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Rock Drawing Sculpture Acc. 19.1959	1957	Terra cotta	10 x 14 1/4 x 6" (25.3 x 36.1 x 15.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 8.16 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Fund given in memory of Philip L. Goodwin
The Burning Walls of Troy Sculpture Acc. 394.1966	1957	Terra cotta	8 1/8 x 11 5/8 x 5 3/8" (20.6 x 28.5 x 13.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 4.54 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Wilder Green in memory of Frank O'Hara
Study for The Rape of Lucrece Sculpture Acc. 363.1960	1958	Terra cotta	9 1/4 x 16 x 4 1/4" (23.5 x 40.6 x 10.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 8.85 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the artist in memory of Holger Cahill
Mars and Venus Drawing Acc. 687.1965.a-b	(1959-60)	Ink on paper	13 7/8 x 16 7/8" (35.3 x 42.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Charles Egan in memory of J. B. Neumann
Untitled Print Acc. 938.1967	1962	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 11 1/4 × 16 7/8" (28.6 × 42.9 cm); sheet: 15 × 19" (38.1 × 48.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Hiroshima Sculpture Acc. 1514.1968	1965-66 (cast 1967-68)	Bronze	9' 3 3/4" x 6' 2 3/4" x 45 1/4" (283.8 x 189.8 x 114.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
In-text plate (folios 5 verso and 6 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings Illustrated Book Acc. 92.1968.1	1967	One from an illustrated book with forty-six lithographs	composition (irreg.): 7 3/4 x 11 7/16" (19.7 x 29 cm); page (two-page spread): 12 x 17 15/16" (30.5 x 45.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.81.a-b	1967	Ink on acetate	sheet (.a): 14 x 11" (35.5 x 27.9 cm); sheet (.b): 13 7/8 x 11" (35.2 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Untitled from The Atelier Project Print Acc. 198.1988.10	1986		⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Center for Editions, State University of New York, Purchase