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Themis

A work made of collage composed of cut and pasted papers with brush and black ink, metallic paints, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper and printing in black ink on white wove paper, laid down on cream laid paper (pieced).

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  • A work made of collage composed of cut and pasted papers with brush and black ink, metallic paints, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper and printing in black ink on white wove paper, laid down on cream laid paper (pieced).

Date:

1979

Artist:

Nancy Spero
American, 1926-2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Nancy Spero

Title

Themis

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1979

Medium

Collage composed of cut and pasted papers with brush and black ink, metallic paints, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper and printing in black ink on white wove paper, laid down on cream laid paper (pieced)

Dimensions

52 × 62.3 cm (20 1/2 × 24 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Rhona Hoffman

Reference Number

2008.802

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