2003.80.15: A Long Tissue-Paper Arrow, Alternating Red and Salmon Color Pieces, Folded into a Rectangle
Archival Material
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.80.15
- People
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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
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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
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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
Verification Level
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