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Dossett [recto]

1970-1971

Ed McGowin

Artist, American, born 1938

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and black ink with colored pencil on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum exchange with the artist)
Dimensions

sheet: 30.48 × 22.86 cm (12 × 9 in.)
Accession

2015.19.2825.a

Dossett [verso]

Ed McGowin

1970

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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. 256, no. 1688.

Inscriptions

lower center in black ink: "DOSSETT" '70-'71 / FOAM, ROPE, CHEESECLOTH, DYE, LIGHT, DOSSETT.

Wikidata ID

Q64556251

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