Photo: Hermann Landshoff, “Ruth Vollmer with Obelisk,” 1962. Ruth Vollmer Papers, 1939–1980, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Via https://metromod.net/2022/03/24/ruth-vollmers-transformational-artistic-vision-and-practice/
Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer (1903–1982), née Landshoff, sculpted mathematics before computers could: spheres, spirals, and platonic solids in bronze, wire, and acrylic, made in New York after her 1935 emigration from Germany. Her apartment salons hosted Smithson, Judd, Andre, and Eva Hesse; Sol LeWitt wrote "Ruth Vollmer: Mathematical Forms" for Studio International in 1970, and Betty Parsons showed her from 1960 to the end of the seventies. MoMA, the National Gallery, and the Whitney hold her work — the mathematical-form ancestor of half of what hangs in this collection.
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