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

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2006.208.114.F
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/319006

Medium

Plastic and stone

Dimensions

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

Inscriptions and Marks

(not assigned): Inscription in black marker on red top reads "K. Groh / '75" There is one of his labels affixed over a previous round sticker that has not been entirely torn off. Folded red paper (red on outside) reads inside STONE TRANSPORTATION / EVENT NR. III 16. Juni 1975 Place: friedrichsfehn / Gasder Keans Groh" all in blue (faded black) fountain pen ink except date (stamped blue ink and sticker).

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of Barbara Moore
Accession Year: 2006
Object Number: 2006.208.114.F
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Description: small red and clear plastic pill box holding 8 rocks, small, all grayish white. Box is circular and held together by scotch tape and 2 rubber bands. Inscription in black marker on red top reads "K. Groh / '75"