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Boxed Man in a Box

1970

Jan Stussy

Artist, American, 1921 - 1990

Tamarind Institute

Publisher

Medium

lithograph (stone) in black on Rives BFK paper
Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Dimensions

sheet: 56.2 x 73 cm (22 1/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Accession

1984.34.940

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1989

Devon, Marjorie, and Peter Walch. Catalogue Raisonné: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., 1960-1970. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1989, no. 2840.

Inscriptions

across bottom in white crayon: TAMARIND IMPRESSION / "BOXEDMAN IN A BOX" / Stussy 70; lower right verso in graphite: 2840 / Rives BFK

Markings

BS: Tamarind (T.1), Hamilton (T.50)

Wikidata ID

Q74064193

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