2000.60.12: Postcard: Manhattan (Statue of Liberty)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2000.60.12

People

Cai Guo-Qiang, Chinese (Quanzhou, China born 1957)

Title

Postcard: Manhattan (Statue of Liberty)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

postcard, print

Date

1996

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/177929

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 20 1996, New York, USA
  (C) Cai Guo Qiang
  Photo by Hiro Ihara
  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

2000.60.12

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

A postcard with an image of the artist with smoke standing along a rocky shoreline with a view of lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

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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