Encounter

Dorothy Dehner · 1969

Before you is Encounter — a sculpture by the American artist Dorothy Dehner, nineteen sixty-nine. Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal.

Medium Bronze, six parts · Dimensions Each 50 x 7 x 7" (127 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm), 40 x 6 x 6" (101.6 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm), 39 x 5 x 5" (99.1 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm), 38 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2" (96.5 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm), 27 1/2 x 5 x 4 1/2" (69.9 x 12.7 x 11.4 cm), and 14 1/2 x 5 x 4" (36.8 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm) · Credit Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds and partial gift of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts

Hanging beside it in Gallery 404: Meem, Kwannon

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Spider, Kwannon, Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Constellation with Red Object, Table Piece LXXXVIII (The Deluge), Laocoön