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Crystal Blue Cathedral

A work made of translucent and opaque watercolor, with pen and inks and black acrylic paint, on ivory wove paper, folded into multiple signatures and sewn through the fold in a quarter-cloth binding with marbled paper covered boards with loose collage elements and blue ribbon page marker.

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  • A work made of translucent and opaque watercolor, with pen and inks and black acrylic paint, on ivory wove paper, folded into multiple signatures and sewn through the fold in a quarter-cloth binding with marbled paper covered boards with loose collage elements and blue ribbon page marker.

Date:

1994

Artist:

Raymond Pettibon
American, born 1957

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Raymond Pettibon

Title

Crystal Blue Cathedral

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1994

Medium

Translucent and opaque watercolor, with pen and inks and black acrylic paint, on ivory wove paper, folded into multiple signatures and sewn through the fold in a quarter-cloth binding with marbled paper covered boards with loose collage elements and blue ribbon page marker

Dimensions

34.5 × 25.8 cm (13 5/8 × 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow

Reference Number

2015.239

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