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How to Grow a Rainbow

c. 1964

Joseph Cornell

Associated Names

Joseph Cornell

Artist, American, 1903 - 1972

The image shows geometric shapes including a dark blue cone, a green cylinder, and a large circular shape in the background. There is a small inset above the shapes with lines and circular shapes interconnected with arrows.

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Artwork overview

Medium

cut-and-pasted offset printed paper and torn-and-pasted Japanese paper with brush and blue ink and pink colored pencil, mounted to masonite, in artist's frame
Credit Line

Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Aimee, Jake, Jason and Juliette Lehrman
Dimensions

overall: 29.53 × 21.59 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2023.124.27

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

C&M Arts, New York; purchased 28 March 1996 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC.

Associated Names

Lehrman, Robert

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