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A cardboard box containing bits of glass.

The cardboard box has a label on one end which reads “Morning Piece (Yoko Ono).” It contains fourteen pieces of sea-worn glass in various sizes and shades of white, green, and blue.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26460
People
Yoko Ono, American (Tokyo, Japan born 1933)
Fluxus, American
Title
Morning Piece (1964) to George Maciunas
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Morning Piece
Classification
Performance Artifacts
Work Type
performance artifact
Date
1965
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/29166

Physical Descriptions

Medium
14 found shards of sea-worn glass in various sizes and shades of white, green, and blue.
Dimensions
Dimensions vary with installation

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Barbara Moore, Bound/Unbound, New York, New York, partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, June 28, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection, Margaret Fisher Fund and gift of Barbara Moore/Bound & Unbound
Copyright
© Yoko Ono
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26460
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • circa 1963, Sert Gallery, Cambridge, 09/01/2012 - 10/07/2012
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016

Verification Level

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