The Ballad of the Skeletons
1996
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Collaborator, American, born 1951
Collaborator, American, born 1957
Collaborator, British, born 1937
Collaborator, German, born 1945
Collaborator, American, born 1937
Collaborator, Japanese, born 1948
Collaborator, American, 1914 - 1997
Collaborator, American, born 1936
Collaborator, American, active late 20th century
Collaborator, American, born 1957
Printer, American, born 1947
Printer, American, born 1948
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
color screenprint on Rives BFK wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 75.72 × 90.33 cm (29 13/16 × 35 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.177.22
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; Lee and Ann Fensterstock, New York; acquired 2000 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2006
The Art of Collaboration: Works from the National Gallery of Art's Gemini G.E.L. Archive, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2006-2007.
Bibliography
1966
Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 1701.
2011
Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 55.5. http://www.nga.gov/gemini
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: SP 1/25; lower right in graphite: Allen Ginsberg AH [circled] '96; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: AG96-5241
Markings
embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Wikidata ID
Q76335529