Kate Clark’s sculpture ‘Kin’ acquired by Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit

Anima Mundi are delighted to announce that Kate Clark’s unique sculpture ‘Kin’ has been acquired by Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit for their permanent collection. ‘Kin’ was made in 2019 from impala hide, foam, clay, pins, thread, rubber eyes, horns and measures 57 x 50 x 17 inches.

This important collection includes works by numerous 20th Century luminaries including Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Larry Poons, Duane Hanson, Donald Judd, Sam Francis, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Anthony Caro, Josef Albers, Jean Debuffet, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell, Barbara Hepworth and Jean Arp among many others.

Cranbrook Art Museum is part of Cranbrook Educational Community, one of the world’s leading centers of education, science, and art. Comprising a graduate Academy of Art, modern and contemporary Art Museum, Center for Collections and Research, House and Gardens, Institute of Science, and Pre-K through 12 independent college preparatory Schools, Cranbrook welcomes thousands of visitors and students to its campus each year.

Founded by Detroit philanthropists George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth in 1904, Cranbrook’s 319-acre campus features the work of world-renowned architects such as Eliel Saarinen, Albert Kahn, Steven Holl, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Rafael Moneo, Peter Rose, and sculptors Carl Milles, Marshall Fredericks and others. Critics have called Cranbrook “the most enchanted and enchanting setting in America” and in 1989, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.


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