2003.80.15: A Long Tissue-Paper Arrow, Alternating Red and Salmon Color Pieces, Folded into a Rectangle

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2003.80.15

People

James Lee Byars, American (Detroit, MI 1932 - 1997 Cairo, Egypt)

Title

A Long Tissue-Paper Arrow, Alternating Red and Salmon Color Pieces, Folded into a Rectangle

Classification

Archival Material

Work Type

archival material

Date

1979-1980

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/76730

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gold colored pencil on red and mauve tissue paper

Dimensions

402.9 x 12.6 cm (158 5/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
total of paper used with length of each piece measured: 416.2 cm (163 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

James Lee Byars; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, transfer; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives

Copyright

© The Estate of James Lee Byars / Michael Werner Gallery

Accession Year

2003

Object Number

2003.80.15

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

6 pieces of tissue glued together, with head of arrow at one end and a straight edge at the other end. Gold pencil text. Text:
Mr. H Welcome back full of tropic heat / Do you love the way the word "Crimson" Is in / everything in Cambridge (even the Crimson Radio Station) / Let's go fast now we must get "perfect" like that / But unseen it has been a very fine week / try J 868 - 1353 /

Exhibition History

• James Lee Byars Letters (title TBD), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, 01/17/2004 - 06/30/2004

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