2003.80.4: Red-Painted Paper Scroll with Gold Text in Crumpled Black Tissue Paper
Archival Material
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.80.4
- People
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James Lee Byars, American (Detroit, MI 1932 - 1997 Cairo, Egypt)
- Title
- Red-Painted Paper Scroll with Gold Text in Crumpled Black Tissue Paper
- Classification
- Archival Material
- Work Type
- archival material
- Date
- 1979-1980
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/76866
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold colored pencil on red-painted paper
- Dimensions
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846.9 x 18.7 cm (333 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
total paper used with length of each piece measured: 867 cm (341 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Text read horizontally across scroll from left right. Not one continuous piece of paper, but rather several pieces glued together to make the long scroll. Letter text: Grand " W [superscript s] 4" Am. Genius happily "W" get the papers cut to ll X ll whatever machine will do ( 1000 will Be the cost of 250) Here are the Big papers "Cut the Biggest Square (the width of the paper) and we simply put 2 papers in the Black Env. [superscript s] (Gen.) (yes please) one can shadow the other I was sad abo. The small cut. Please. Nyer [superscript s] D. Miller 12E.8 (tele. 254 + 691) G.B Washburn 420 E. 80 (744-3584) S. Wagstaff 1 Fifth Ave (477-0523) Thomas Hoving c/o Tiffany? Bit witnick [with two question marks above] Director Blkyn Mus. F. Robinson 297 Wayland Ave. Providence R.I. (272-3614) Kiss JL
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
- 2003.80.4
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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