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upper left in red colored pencil over graphite: "Aleph²"; upper left in graphite: (squared); upper right in graphite [vertically]: Gallery 65 Corcoran Scale 1/2"=1' / CEILING Height - 13'; top left of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: 7 1/2; top center of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: 25' / TOP VIEW; top right of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: mirror; right center of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: 23'; lower right of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: 9 1/2'; lower right of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: Try to put argon mount above door drill a / hole through wall for shot down through galleries; left center of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: 10' 3" 1' 4 1/2"; upper left, inside of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: 1' 4 1/2"; upper right, inside of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: RCA / 125 mw / argon [in rectangle]; right center, inside of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand [vertically]: BLOCK DOOR; lower right, inside of square around red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: Both mirror either side 7' above floor; lower right, inside of square around red diagonal lines, in red ink, in artist's hand [vertically]: one lasers (4 mw uni lab) that goes between all four mirrors.; center, below squared box of red diagonal lines, in graphite, in artist's hand: argon / fun + part of both "RA" + "Aleph²"; center, below squared box of red diagonal lines, in red ink, in artist's hand: point of reflection; top center of lower right rectangle, outside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: 10' 4"; right center of lower right rectangle, outside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: 6' 4"; lower right of lower right rectangle, outside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: Bolts into support frame / that allow mirror to be adjusted; lower left corner of lower right rectangle, outside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: 2" / 2"; left center of lower right rectangle, outside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: 1 x 4 wood frame to which mirror is mounted; top center of lower right rectangle, inside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: 10'; right center of lower right rectangle, inside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: 6'; lower right of lower right rectangle, inside rectangle, in graphite, in artist's hand: consider / BLUE area [underlined] spread on / mirror around points of / Reflection.; lower left, in graphite, in artist's hand: hi dad; lower right in graphite, in artist's hand: RKrebs / 4/69

Provenance

the artist, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1974; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1983
Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965-1982, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1983-1984, no. 5

Bibliography

1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 254, no. 1683.

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