
John McCracken
Untitled, conceived in 2011 and executed in 2017
Price upon request



Artwork Details
David Zwirner, New York
Private Collection, acquired from the above, 2017
Christie's A Century of Art: The Gerald Fineberg Collection Part II, May 18, 2023, lot 895
Private Collection, acquired at the above sale

John McCracken's Untitled (conceived 2011, executed 2017) is a major late statement from one of the defining figures of California Minimalism. Conceived in the final year of McCracken's life, the work was cast posthumously under full estate authorization, a well-documented practice accepted in the market, and comes from the Gerald Fineberg Collection, one of the most respected American Minimalist and contemporary holdings assembled in the late twentieth century.
Standing 92 inches tall on a white square plinth, the work presents as a mirror-polished stainless steel monolith whose three faces reflect the surrounding space in continuous, shifting registers. The reflective surface connects McCracken to the Light and Space movement alongside James Turrell, Larry Bell, and Peter Alexander. As McCracken described his reductive approach: "In distilling my ideas I was doing something analogous to making poetry—trying, in a way, to say the most with the least."
McCracken's career was marked by inclusion in landmark exhibitions including Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum, New York (1966), and American Sculpture of the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1967). His work is held in major international collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

“In distilling my ideas I was doing something analogous to making poetry—trying, in a way, to say the most with the least.”— John McCracken
Learn more about this artwork
Get in touch with us to learn more about John McCracken's Untitled and a specialist will get in touch with you:

Looking for someone else?
At Heather James we have access to thousands of works, but not all can be shown on our website. If there is a particular artist or artwork you are interested in, please contact us and we will work with you to make your collection complete.