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A Hollow Gesture

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

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  • A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

Date:

1980

Artist:

Robert Carston Arneson
American, 1930-1992

About this artwork

Arneson, one of the foremost figures in the American art-clay movement during the second half of this century, was also an exceptional draftsman. He was an important teacher, and proponent of so-called “Bay Area Funk Art” (a strain of representational art based in the San Francisco area that also included William T. Wiley), a group whose work embraced corny kitsch and was characterized by visual and verbal puns often of a base nature.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Robert Carston Arneson

Title

A Hollow Gesture

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1980

Medium

Color lithograph on white wove paper

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 102.6 × 76.6 cm (40 7/16 × 30 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Stanley and Norman Freehling

Reference Number

1980.395

Extended information about this artwork

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