One Billion Colored Dots

2008

Robert Barry

Artist, American, born 1936

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    twenty-five bound volumes with offset lithographs on Novatech Easy Matt wove paper (each vol. with 2,000 pages, each page with 40,000 dots, each volume containing 40,000,000 dots, thus 1,000,000,000 dots in the twenty-five vols.)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Artist

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.77 x 15.56 cm (9 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
    page size: 27.62 x 18.1 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
    closed: 28.26 x 20.32 x 7.94 cm (11 1/8 x 8 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.33.1-25

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Associated Artworks

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Volume Twelve, 440,000,001 to 480,000,000, Light Grey

Robert Barry

2008

Volume Eighteen, 680,000,001 to 720,000,000, Red Violet

Robert Barry

2008

Volume Six, 200,000,001 to 240,000,000, Yellow

Robert Barry

2008


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

gift of the artist, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center of colophone page in vol. twenty-five in graphite: 3/5 A.P. R. BARRY 08


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