Nasher Sculpture Center Opens Survey of Harry Bertoia
Ornamental Centipede (c. 1942), Harry Bertoia. Cranbrook Art Museum. © 2021 Estate of Harry Bertoia/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas opens a new survey of Harry Bertoia’s work on January 29, 2022. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life is the first US museum retrospective of the artist’s career in nearly 50 years and will examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice.
Bertoia re-opened the metals shop at Cranbrook Academy of Art at the behest of Eliel Saarinen in 1939. Due to wartime scarcity, he mainly created jewelry in the time period and formed connections with contemporaries, Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen.
Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life will be on view from January 29, 2022, through April 24, 2022. Cranbrook Art Museum loaned work to the exhibition from its permanent collection, including Bertoia’s Ornamental Centipede.
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