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Hands

c. 1954

Billy Morrow Jackson

Associated Names

Billy Morrow Jackson

Artist, American, 1926 - 2006

The image shows an assortment of angular and linear shapes forming an abstract composition. There are overlapping and intersecting lines creating a pattern of stylized hands holding stick-like objects with radiating lines and dots suggesting sparks. The composition evokes mechanized hands in motion or gesturing, resembling gears or robotic appendages. The angular shapes and linear arrangement convey a sense of energetic movement.

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Artwork overview

Medium

screenprint
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 240 x 155 mm (irregular)
sheet: 280 x 215 mm
Accession Number

2008.115.2660

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lyle Sarnevitz, Boston, MA); to Dave H. and Reba W. Williams, Greenwich, CT, 20 August 1997; gift to the NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Inscriptions

In pencil: lower left, 14/15; lower center, Hands; lower right, BM Jackson.

Wikidata ID

Q76442407

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