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Bassoon Chart for HPSCHD (with Lejaren Hiller)

John Cage

Artist, American, 1912 - 1992

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and black ink, red and black ballpoint pen, and blue pencil on tracing paper
Credit Line

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Dimensions

overall: 45.7 x 30.4 cm (18 x 11 15/16 in.)
Accession

1991.241.40

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New York, NY; purchase/gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vogel

Exhibition History

1977

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 11, 1977-January 1, 1978

Bibliography

1977

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1977, 41.

Inscriptions

notations overall; lower left in graphite: Basoon chart for HPSCHD (with Lejaren Hiller); lower right in graphite: John Cage

Wikidata ID

Q64582131

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