Primary Structures (1966 exhibition)

Exhibit Catalog Cover designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen

Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors was an exhibition presented by the Jewish Museum in New York City from April 27 to June 12 in 1966. The show was a survey of recent work in sculpture by artists from the Northeast United States, California and Great Britain that shared general characteristics of scale, simplified geometry and smooth, often colorful, industrial surfaces.[1] Its legacy, which focuses on a subset of the artists in the show, is as the exhibition that introduced Minimal Art to the broad public, both through the exhibition itself and the wide attention it received in national media.[2] Primary Structures was organized by Kynaston McShine, the Jewish Museum's Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

  1. ^ Hoffman, Jens; McShine, Kynaston (2014). Other Primary Structures, Vol. 2 (reprint edition of 1966 Primary Structures catalogue). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. n.p. ISBN 9780300197334.
  2. ^ Altshuler, Bruce (2013). Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions that Made Art History, 1962-2002. London: Phaidon. p. 53. ISBN 9780714864952.