The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Serra, Richard, 1938-2024

LC control no.n 78026204
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingSerra, Richard, 1938-2024
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Serra, Richard, 1939-
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedTribeca (New York, N.Y.) Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
Birth date1938-11-02
Death date2024-03-26
Place of birthSan Francisco (Calif.)
Place of deathOrient (N.Y.)
Field of activitySculpture Video art
Profession or occupationArtists Sculptors Motion picture producers and directors
Video artist
Found inHis Richard Serra, c1978: t.p. (Richard Serra) p. 189 (b. 1939)
Richard Serra, 2014?: p. 219 (b. Nov. 2, 1939, in San Francisco, Calif.; MFA in painting from Yale; sculptor and drawer)
Richard Serra, Films and Videotapes, 2015: prel. p. (exhibition brings together 16 films and videos made by RichardSerra between 1968 and 1979; Richard Serra, one of today's most influential artists; usually associated with the monumental outdoor sculptures in steel)
Email correspondence from Lily Pregill, for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 14, 2017 (birth year 1939 in Richard Serra authority record is incorrect; it should be 1938; Gagosian Gallery (London) had notified MoMA that Serra's birth year appeared incorrectly on MoMA's website; birthdate November 2, 1938 confirmed by MoMA call to his studio)
Wikipedia, Jan. 8, 2017 (Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938); American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal; involved in the Process Art Movement; lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Serra>
New York Times, March 26, 2024, accessed via WWW, March 29, 2024 (Richard Serra; d. Tuesday, [March 26, 2024], Orient, N.Y.)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/arts/richard-serra-dead.html>