Artist's Materials for "A Flux Atlas" by Bob Watts

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.208.114.E
People: Collected by George Maciunas, American (Kaunas, Lithuania 1931 - 1978 Boston, MA)
Used by Robert Watts, American (Burlington, IA 1923 - 1988 Martins Creek, PA)
Title: Artist's Materials for "A Flux Atlas" by Bob Watts
Classification: Artists' Materials
Work Type: artists' material
Date: 1975
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/319005

Medium

Plastic and stone

Dimensions

14 x 12 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

(not assigned): Container Label: orange paper: "polluted stones from / the road in front of / my house" and / "friedrichsfehn / 23.06.1975 / Klaus Groh" both done by typewriter. blue paper, International Artist's Cooperation letterhead, inscription: "STONE TRANSPORTATION EVENT No. 4 / 23.06.1975 / / polluted stones from he street in front of the house of Klaus Groh, friedrichsfehn / germany" typewriter.

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of Barbara Moore
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.208.114.E
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Description: 8 stones, black with pollution, orange paper labels, wrapped in blue paper