- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2019.6.137
- People
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Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Rosenthal Rainbow Mural/Porcelain Designs/Paintings/"Light Satellite" for Munich Olympics
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing, sketchbook page
- Date
- 1971
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/376520
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black and blue pen on paper
- Dimensions
- open (approx.): 30.5 × 43.2 cm (12 × 17 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: left page, in black pen: VII-14-71 / ask George Clark / Harold Edgerton / G.E. / W[illegible] / about lights // VIII-17-75 / think / cherry picker / & cleaning // [encircled in blue pen:] w. Mr. van Lichten / American Optical // RAUOL F. VAN LIGHTEN // reflection / &/or refraction // part reflection / part refraction // part reflection / & part penetration // left photograph / of model // think heating / defrosting
- inscription: right page, in black pen: VIII-14-71 / glass people / Prof. Dan Uhlmann / x 6895 / crystals / referred us to / (U.S.) American Optical / Eli Snitzer/ Sh / Schnitzer / , boss / of / [arrow] / referred us to / Ruel van Lichten / optical engineer // Framingham, Mass.
- Provenance
- Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
- Accession Year
- 2019
- Object Number
- 2019.6.137
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Pages 273-274
- Subjects and Contexts
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Animating the Page
- Related Works
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