“IT’S INCREDIBLE, really, that when you’re creating there is an added energy that surpasses anything else. If you have great desires you have energy. If you don’t, you’ll have a nice life.” These words were spoken by the sculptor Louise Nevelson when she was in her 80s. She is an electrifying testament to that statement. Her indefatigable energy spawned a prodigious amount of work up until her death in 1988 at age 88.
A new show at Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art, “The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury,” is presenting 50 of Nevelson’s works. The exhibition, available to the public August 27, 2023—January 7, 2024, will be composed of five (1959–60), all-black wood sculpture; (1960), gold-painted wood; (1967), all-black wood; (1967-68), made of plexiglass; in addition, there will be a display of 20 lithographs.
