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Martin Puryear: American, born 1941

Andrew Hoyem: American

Cane
2000: bound volume containing 10 woodcuts in black by Martin Puryear on Kitakata handmade paper, with text by Jean Toomer, afterword by Leon Litwack, and colophon page on Biblio paper; Overall (closed): 29.8 x 35.8 x 2.7 cm (11 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
overall (opened): 73 x 35.8 cm (28 3/4 x 14 1/8 in.)
accessory size: 34.9 x 38.1 x 4.8 cm (13 3/4 x 15 x 1 7/8 in.); Gift of Doris and Don Fisher; 2001.89.1.a-j; Not on View

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left center on colophon page in graphite: 37; lower right on colophon page in graphite: Martin Puryear

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Andrew Hoyem, San Francisco; designated purchase by NGA, 2001