# @newarkmuseumart on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-04-14T14:35:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Newark Museum of Art (@newarkmuseumart) — https://gondola.cc/newarkmuseumart

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Did you know we had sibling artists in our collection? 👏👏

The Puryear Brothers are African American craftsmen, one a sculptor, and the other a furniture maker. They’re known for transforming their handy work into fine art.🪵

⭐️It’s amazing to have both of their distinct styles represented here in our collection!⭐️

Slide 1 🖼️🌲
Made from cut and carved pine, cypress, ash, and rope, this large, open woodwork sculpture has a body-like base from which a long neck-like form extends. In the late 1980s, Martin Puryear began making a series of neck and body-like forms. Here the body of the sculpture is made up of smoothly sanded wood slats that rise up out of a flat rough base punctured by screws and bolts. The neck likewise rises up from the base and is shaped by a pattern of smooth slats and coarse disks. Martin Puryear has long been interested in interior and exterior forms. In Untitled, the lattice work defines the work’s exterior, but the interior spaces of the body and neck are equally as interesting and elegant.

Slide 2 🖼️🪑
Micheal Puryear is a furniture maker, whose minimal, sleek forms are inspired by Japanese, Scandinavian, and Shaker designs. The table is engineered so that the pale, bleached, rectangular top seems to float magically above the dark stained, arched base.

Martin Puryear, Untitled, 1997-2001
Ash, pine, cypress, and rope, 143 1/2 x 44 x 132 in. (364.5 x 111.8 x 335.3 cm)
Purchase Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund 2006 2006.52

Michael Puryear, Arch Coffee Table, 2007
Ash, 15 1/2 x 48 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.
Purchase 2007 Friends of Decorative Arts 2007.30.2

#craftsmen #woodwork #brothers #nmoa

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