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Solo for Violin (Concert for Piano and Orchestra): Sketch

John Cage

Artist, American, 1912 - 1992

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite on wove 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: 27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8 1/2 in.)
Accession

1991.241.45

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, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 11 November 1977-1 January 1978

Bibliography

1977

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1977, 46.

Inscriptions

notations overall; on mat, across bottom in graphite: Solo for Violin (Concert for Piano and Orchestra): Sketch John Cage

Wikidata ID

Q64582137

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