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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.7.54
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled (inserted notes with color transfer, left page); Untitled (C.A.V.S. poster designs, right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Honolulu/Food Show/Boston
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1974
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374954

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Green marker on yellow paper, carbon copy, black pen on paper, adhesive, colored marker, and black pen on paper
Dimensions
open (approx.): 39.2 × 55.9 cm (15 7/16 × 22 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Left page, top sheet; green marker: C.A.V.S / M.I.T. SHOW / Lobby 7 / 7 NOVEMBER / POSTER [with arrows and smiley face in "O"]
  • inscription: Left page, second sheet; typed black font: To: Otto Piene / From: Friedrich St. Florian / RE: text for poster, Lobby 7 exhibition, November 7th. // 1. Title: Multiple Interaction, / Elements of a traveling exhibition by the fellows, / Center for Advanced Visual Studies. / 2. Works: Pan / Michio Ihara and Paul Earls // Interiors* / Jan Navarro-Baldeweg // Thirty Thousand Facet Piece- / A New Light Ballet / Otto Piene with Mitchell Benoff // Crystals / Alan Sonfist // Nymphenburg Two / Friedrich St. Florian // Cybernetic Sculpture** / Tsai // Image after Image ** / Stan VanderBeek // *Photograph and drawing only / **Video version only
  • inscription: Left page, second sheet; handwritten annotations: 15th [arrow] / I spoke with Suran // Patetica, Scale for a Leg, / Scale for a Head* / Luis Frangella
  • inscription: Left page, third sheet; black pen: C.A.V.S. show poster / 22" x 28" = image size / 23" x 29" paper size / give design to / Suzanne on / WEDNESDAY [arrows]/ 30 October / The day / BEFORE / Halloween.
  • inscription: Left page; black marker: X 30-74
  • inscription: Right page; black marker: C.A.V.S. POSTER / FOR LOBBY 7 SHOW / COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS / WEEK / NOV. '74 // ASTERISK // ASTERISK // ASTERISK
  • inscription: Right page; black pen: Brewster / 4 [encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
Copyright
© Otto Piene Estate
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.7.54
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 107-108

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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