Thirteen Drawings
1973
Artist, American, born 1941
Artwork overview
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Medium
sketchbook of 12 drawings in various media on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 30.3 x 22.6 cm (11 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1991.241.172.a-l
Associated Artworks
See all 13 artworksMonument 5
Richard Tuttle
1973
Monument 8
Richard Tuttle
1973
Monument 4
Richard Tuttle
1973
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
2005
"The Art of Richard Tuttle", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, 2005-2006.
Inscriptions
…on sketchbook cover, upper right in ball-point pen: 13 DRAWINGS 1973 / Richard Tuttle '85; on back of sketchbook in ball-point pen: 22 MARCH '85 / This notebook is a Monument to drawing going / out of existence-the first drawing being very much / a drawing (about drawing space), and the drawings seem / to me to advance toward not drawing (out of drawing / space). This seems to me to be true to a situation / in the 70s, where drawing, so impatient to get over the excessive individuality of the 60s, lost interest in the non-individuality of the 70's- / This is all the more remarkable now, for there / seems to be a return of the interest to the / drawing (drawing space)... / Richard Tuttle; (SEE COMMENTARY FOR INSCRIPTION CONTINUATION)