Untitled (Graham Crackers / Picture Album Book)
on or after 1932
Artist, American, 1899 - 1977
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume of found paper and string with soot
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Credit Line
Gift of James Castle Collection and Archive, and Acquisition with Avalon Fund
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Dimensions
book (closed): 24.45 × 22.86 cm (9 5/8 × 9 in.)
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Accession
2013.33.46.1-21
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
by inheritance to his sister, Agnes C. Wade, 1977; by inheritance 1993 to Geraldine E. Garrow, Georgia M. Allred, Guy W. Wade Jr. and Gail M. Johnson; transferred 1996 to James Castle Collection (comprised of the heirs of Agnes C. Wade); transferred 2011 to James Castle Collection and Archive LP; acquired 2013 by NGA
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
October 14, 2008-January 4, 2009. James Castle: A Retrospective. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Bibliography
2008
Percy, Ann. James Castle: A Retrospective. (Exh. Cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art) Philadelphia, 2008, p. 56, figure 133.
2013
Brodie, Judith. "James Castle, Drawings, Artists' Books, and Assemblages." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 48 (Spring 2013): 28-29, repro.