Primary Structures. New York, The Jewish Museum, 1966

Scarce exhibition catalogue and invitation card for the first American museum show of ‘an important group of sculptors’ presenting new art later coined Minimalism. Curated/edited by Kynaston McShine, future curator for MOMA. Cover design by Elaine Lustig Cohen.

(1) First edition catalogue. Stitch-bound, 21 x 24.5 cm, 52 pp. 60 b/w photographs of works by Carl André, Richard Artschwager, John Mc Cracken, Walter de Maria, Dan Flavin, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Robert Smithson, Anne Truit et al. Light shelf wear to covers, else very good. (2) Invitation card, 13 x 18 cm, for the black tie preview of the epic exhibition ‘Primary Structures: Younger British and American Sculptors’, April 26, 1966. Unmailed copy, very good.