Robert Mangold

Selected Works
X Model
1968
Acrylic on masonite

12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated verso
(Inventory #40223)

Distorted Square/Circle #7
1973
Acrylic and graphite on paper

Paper size: 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Image size: 8 x 8 3/8 inches (20.3 x 21.3 cm)
Frame size: 16 3/8 x 13 3/8 inches (41.6 x 34 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated lower recto
(Inventory #40460)

Four Triangles Within a Circle I
1974
Colored pencil on brown paper

22 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches (56.2 x 56.2 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
(Inventory #40214)

Five Aquatints
1975
Portfolio of five aquatints with soft ground etching on Arches Satin paper

Image/paper size: 9 x 9 inches each (22.9 x 22.9 cm each)
Edition of 50, 15 AP (APs were “numbered” A-O)
Signed and numbered on reverse; each titled A, B, C, D, E in graphite
(Inventory #40033)

A Quarter Circle, a Square, and a Triangle within a Rectangle
1976
Acrylic and graphite on canvas

Canvas size: 42 x 56 inches (106.7 x 142.2 cm)
Signed, titled and dated verso
(Inventory #40436)

Cream + Painting
1980
Acrylic and black pencil on three joined canvases

48 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches (123.2 x 92.7 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
(Inventory #40294)

Rectangle With 3 Rectangles
1980
A pair of screenprints on Rives BFK paper
Image size (each): 18 15/16 x 14 1/8 inches (48.1 x 35.9 cm)
Paper size (each): 26 3/8 x 21 1/16 inches (67 x 53.5 cm)
Frame size (each): 28 1/2 x 23 inches (72.4 x 58.4 cm)
Signed and numbered lower center in graphite
Edition of 50
(Inventory #40445)
X within X
1981
Silkscreen on museum board with cut edge

Image size: 8 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (22.2 x 21 cm)
Paper Size: 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (22.2 x 21 cm)
Frame size: 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (47 x 47 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, lower recto
(Inventory #36577)

Four Color Frame
1984
Silkscreen on Arches 88 paper

Image size: 18 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (47 x 44.5 cm)
Paper size: 23 5/8 x 22 1/2 inches (60 x 57.2 cm)
Edition of 50, 10 AP, 3 PP
Signed recto center lower edge
(Inventory #38405)

Four Color Frame Painting #11
1985
Acrylic paint, black pencil, and graphite on four joined sheets of paper

Image/paper size: 32 7/8 x 23 1/4 inches (83.5 x 59.1 cm)
Frame size: 37 7/8 x 28 1/8 inches (96.2 x 71.4 cm)
Signed and dated verso
(Inventory #40225)

Multiple Panel Paintings, 1973-1976
A Book of Silkscreen Prints
1992
Set of nine screenprints on Fabriano paper with cut edge

Paper size: 11 3/4 x 23 7/8 inches each (29.8 x 60.6 cm each)
Edition of 300 , 25 AP
Signed “RM 1992” on each sheet; Numbered on colophon
(Inventory #35274)

Curved Plane/Figure 1
1994
Etching with aquatint in colors on two sheets

Edition of 50
Image/paper size: 42 3/4 x 58 inches (108.6 x 147.3 cm)
Frame size: 48 5/8 x 64 x 2 1/4 inches (123.5 x 162.6 x 5.7 cm)
Signed lower right and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33450)

Untitled
1995
Silkscreen on T.H. Saunders Waterford paper

Image size: 37 3/4 x 26 7/8 inches (95.9 x 68.3 cm)
Paper size: 39 1/2 x 28 inches (100.3 x 71.1 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered recto lower edge
(Inventory #36837)

Untitled (A, B, C)
1995
Suite of three etchings with aquatint

Paper size (each): 22 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches (57.1 x 77.5 cm)
Edition of 30, 10 AP
(Inventory #37895)

Untitled
1995
Color etching with aquatint on paper with deckled edge

Edition of 60
Image size: 19 3/4 x 21 inches (50.2 x 53.3 cm)
Paper size: 26 7/8 x 28 inches (68.3 x 71.1 cm)
Frame size: 29 3/8 x 30 1/2 inches (74.6 x 77.5 cm)
Signed lower right and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #31916)

Curled Figures I, II, III
2001
Set of three etchings with aquatint

Edition of 25, 10 AP
Image size: 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches each (22.2 x 29.2 cm each)
Paper size: 18 1/2 x 21 inches each (47 x 53.3 cm each)
Signed lower right, numbered and inscribed I, II, III lower left on each sheet
(Inventory #35173)

Green Column/Figure
2003
Woodcut and softground etching

Image size: 19 x 4 3/4 inches (48.3 x 12.1 cm)
Paper size: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Edition of 100, 20 AP
Signed lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #36582)

Tall Column B
2005
Etching with aquatint

Image size: 79 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (202 x 20 cm)
Paper size: 85 1/2 x 20 inches (217.2 x 50.8 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #33542)

Tall Column A
2005
Etching with aquatint in colors on two joined sheets of wove paper

Image/plate size: 79 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (201.9 x 25.1 cm)
Paper size: 85 1/2 x 21 7/8 inches (217.2 x 55.6 cm)
Edition of 35, 10 AP, 2 PP
Signed lower right and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #35643)

Half Column B
2006
Etching with aquatint

Edition of 35
Image size: 39 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (101 x 20 cm)
Paper size: 44 x 20 inches (111.8 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32019)

Untitled I, II, III
2007
Suite of three etchings and aquatint on Somerset paper

Image size:  29 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches each  (75.6 x 49.8 cm each)
Paper size:  34 x 23 1/2 inches each  (86.4 x 60 cm each)
Signed lower right
Edition of 30
(Inventory #37896)

Ring Image A, B & C
2008
Aquatint and etching on Arches cover white paper

Image size: 25 x 25 inches each (63.5 x 63.5 cm each)
Paper size: 30 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches each (78.1 x 74.9 cm each)
Edition of 35
Signed lower right, titled and numbered lower left
(Inventory #36583)

Untitled
2012
Graphite, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper

Paper size: 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches (19.7 x 15.6 cm)
Frame size: 10 x 8 3/8 inches (25.4 x 21.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower recto
(Inventory #40399)

Extended Frame with Separation
2014
Woodcut

Edition of 30
Image size: 20 x 39 7/8 inches (50.8 x 101.3 cm)
Paper size: 26 x 46 inches (66 x 116.8 cm)
Signed lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #27411)

Frame with Separation
2014
Woodcut on paper with deckled edge

Edition of 30
Image size: 25 1/2 x 24 1/8 inches (64.8 x 61.3 cm)
Paper size: 30 1/8 x 31 1/2 inches (76.5 x 80 cm)
Signed lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #35644)

Double Square Frame II
2015
Etching, aquatint

Paper size: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.1 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 48, 12 AP
(Inventory #37047)

Double Square Frame I
2015
Etching, aquatint

Paper size: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.1 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 48, 12 AP
(Inventory #37048)

Two Open Squares Within a Red Area
2017
Etching with aquatint

Image size:  12 1/8 x 24 inches  (30.8 x 61 cm)
Paper size:  20 x 30 inches  (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 25
Signed ‘R. Mangold’ lower right and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #29047)

Two Open Squares Within a Green Area
2017
Etching with aquatint

Image size: 12 1/8 x 24 inches (30.8 x 61 cm)
Paper size: 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 25
Signed ‘R. Mangold’ lower right and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #29223)

Additional Information

Born in North Tonawanda, New York in 1937, Robert Mangold studied at the Cleveland Art Institute from 1956 to 1959. After receiving a fellowship to study at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut, he transferred to Yale University, where he received his B.F.A. in 1961 and M.F.A. in 1963. There, he experimented with a variety of stylistic idioms. His classmates included Nancy Graves, Brice Marden, and Richard Serra. He married fellow art student Sylvia Plimack in 1961, and they moved to New York upon the completion of his MFA in 1962. In New York during the early sixties, Mangold worked as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art with colleagues Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin, and Lucy Lippard. Together these artists shared ideas that developed into minimalist theories.

By 1964, Mangold had moved into his signature Minimalist painting style and had his first solo exhibition, Walls and Areas, at Fischbach Gallery in New York City. He subsequently participated in several seminal group exhibitions, including Systematic Painting held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1966, and Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum in 1967. Mangold held various teaching positions, among them the School of Visual Arts in New York, Hunter College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, and Cornell University Summer Art School. After receiving a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1969, Mangold and his wife, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, moved to upstate New York where they still live and work.

Major museum exhibitions of his work have been held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1971); the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (1974); the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1982); Hallen für Neue Kunst in Schaffhausen (1993); the Musée D’Orsay in Paris (2006); the Albright Knox Art Gallery (2009), Buffalo, New York; Parasol Unit (2009), London; and the Kemper Museum of Art (2016-17), Kansas City, Missouri. His work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial four times in 1979, 1983, 1985, and 2004 and is included in approximately 100 international public collections.