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A work made of three-dimensional assemblage of figures drawn in pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache, cut from ivory wove paper and glued to wooden armatures, and miniature plastic decorative objects, against a background of etched and cut ivory wove paper elements with watercolor and touches of gouache, arranged in a gold frame backed with marbled paper.

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  • A work made of three-dimensional assemblage of figures drawn in pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache, cut from ivory wove paper and glued to wooden armatures, and miniature plastic decorative objects, against a background of etched and cut ivory wove paper elements with watercolor and touches of gouache, arranged in a gold frame backed with marbled paper.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Mrs. James Ward Thorne
American, 1882-1966

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Title

Untitled

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1902–1966

Medium

Three-dimensional assemblage of figures drawn in pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache, cut from ivory wove paper and glued to wooden armatures, and miniature plastic decorative objects, against a background of etched and cut ivory wove paper elements with watercolor and touches of gouache, arranged in a gold frame backed with marbled paper

Dimensions

33 × 40.5 × 5.5 cm (13 × 16 × 2 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertrande Coleman

Reference Number

2013.173

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