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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.60.10
People
Cai Guo-Qiang, Chinese (Quanzhou, China born 1957)
Title
Postcard: Manhattan (skyline at night)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
postcard, print
Date
1996
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/177857

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Commercially color-printed ink on card stock
Dimensions
10.7 x 15 cm (4 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: On verso: Manhattan
    The Century with Mushroom Clouds
    Gunpowder 10g, April 21 1996, New York, USA
    (C) Cai Guo Qiang
    Photo by Masatoshi Tatsumi
    Cai Guo Qiang; Projects for 20th Century (R)
    Printed in USA
    Postcard

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cai Guo-Giang, New York, New York, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Jorie Marshall Waterman '96 and Gwendolyn Dunaway Waterman '92 Fund
Copyright
© Cai Guo-Qiang
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.60.10
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Postcard with image of the artist's silhouette and smoke with view of the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan.

Exhibition History

  • Romancing the Wreck/Looking Away, Sert Gallery, Cambridge, 06/28/2003 - 08/03/2003
  • Quantum Grids: Sol LeWitt, Yayoi Kusama, and Cai Guo Qiang, Sert Gallery, Cambridge, 10/15/2005 - 04/16/2006

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