Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist. He worked with minimalism.Chilvers, Ian & Glaves-Smith, John eds., Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 350Tate Modern website "Tate Modern Past Exhibitions Donald Judd". Retrieved on February 19, 2009. In his work, Judd worked with autonomy and space that objects created by it. He was also known for his works alongside sculptor Robert Morris.

When the National Endowment for the Arts supported his work, Northern Kentucky University hired Judd to build his notable  aluminium sculpture that was opened in the middle of the school's campus in 1976.Amy Ehrnreiter (September 18, 2007), ‘Gray box’ maintains mystery The Northerner. Another commission, Untitled (1984), a three-part sculpture out of concrete with steel reinforcements, was installed at Laumeier Sculpture Park.Donald Judd  Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis.

Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, but raised in Marfa, Texas. He studied at College of William and Mary, Columbia University School of General Studies and at the Art Students League of New York. Judd died on February 12, 1994 in Manhattan, New York from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 65.

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