Stack, 1969

  • Donald Judd, American, 1928-1994

Plexiglas and stainless steel

  • Installed: 18 feet × 40 1/4 inches × 31 1/4 inches (5 m 48.6 cm × 102.2 cm × 79.4 cm) Overall (individual unit): 9 × 40 1/4 × 31 1/4 inches (22.9 × 102.2 × 79.4 cm) Weight per unit: ~49 lbs - (WH/MP: 07/19/2023)

Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

69.50

Donald Judd's sculptures with their austere, geometric forms and monochrome colors epitomize the minimalist aesthetic. Repeating the same basic box form in a symmetrical arrangement unites the composition into a single structure, while its large scale commands the space. Judd had all of his works industrially fabricated so that each box shape would be identical, leaving no sign of the artist's handling of the work.

the artist

(Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 2 (1971): 22 (ill.).

Donald Judd, Stack, 1969, plexiglas and stainless steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 69.50.