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Untitled (Safety Pin Abstraction)

1947

Abraham P. Hankins

Associated Names

Abraham P. Hankins

Artist, American, born 1898

The image features a web of looping and intersecting lines over a tiled background with blue and grey shades. The lines create an intricate pattern.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color screenprint
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 19.2 × 18.5 cm (7 9/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 22.6 × 23 cm (8 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.2336

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jim Goodfriend, NY); (William P. Carl Fine Prints, Durham, NC); Dave and Reba Williams, Greenwich, CT, March 1990; gift to NGA, December 2008

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: A P Hankins; lower right in graphite: 1947

Wikidata ID

Q76550881

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