Do Your Own Concert, 1969

Not on View

Medium

graphite, pastel, acrylic, and collage on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 55.88 × 60.64 cm (22 × 23 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barrett M. Linde)

Accession Number

2015.19.2498

Artists / Makers

Juan Downey (artist) American, born Chile, 1940 - 1993

Image Use

This image is unavailable for download.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .
Contact us about image usage .

Inscription

lower right in graphite: March 28, 1969 / Downey; lower center in graphite: "Do Your Own Concert" Pressing the buttons or touching / the two plates at the same time, records elec- / tronic music that will be played back later / Sculpture conceived June '68; various graphite notations overall

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Barrett M. Linde, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Linde, Barrett M.

Exhibition History

1979: Washington Art on Paper: 1962-1978, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1979

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 259, no. 1707.

2017: Crouch, Robert and Ciara Ennis. Juan Downey: Radiant Nature. Exh. cat. Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA,, 2017: p. 26.