Robert Murray, Becca’s H, 1969
Robert Murray, Becca’s H, 1969, painted steel and aluminum, 388.6 x 513.1 x 228.6 cm, Collection of the University of Toronto. Photo credit: Jocelyn Anderson.
Becca’s H, 1969, consists of an H-shape structure whose crossbeam seamlessly transitions into a slanting rectangular plane, injecting movement into a static frame. As with the earlier Cumbria, 1966–67, this monochromatic sculpture plays with our perceptions by creating the illusion of a weightless sheet of pure colour. Becca’s H also recalls Murray’s Chilcotin, 1969, created in the same year and also incorporating the motif of an L-shaped planar support, demonstrating the artist’s constant reinvention of forms within his distinctive sculptural vocabulary.
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Painted steel, 243.8 cm, Collection of City Hall, Saskatoon. Photo credit: Robert Murray.
Robert Murray, Ferus, 1963, painted steel, 360.8 x 111 x 56 cm, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1999 (40049). Photo credit: Robert Murray.
Left to right: Robert Murray, Marker, 1964, painted steel, 220.8 x 53.5 x 88 cm, Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966 (66.3708); Robert Murray, Montauk, 1964, painted steel, 274.3 cm high, location unknown; Robert Murray, TO, 1963, painted aluminum, planar column 275 cm high, tubular column 271.1 cm high, Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Gift from the Junior Women’s Committee Fund, 1966, 65/60.1-.2. © Robert Murray; Robert Murray, Adam and Eve, 1962–63, bronze, 109.1 x 16 x 15 cm, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1970 (16622). © Robert Murray; Robert Murray, Chief, 1964, painted steel, 231.4 cm high, Collection of Frank Stella. Photograph by Robert Murray.