Cacti

Prints and Drawings

1965

Martin Puryear
American, born 1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Martin Puryear
Title: Cacti
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.: 1965
Medium: Graphite, with smudging, on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in graphite: "MP"; inscribed lower left, in graphite: "Cacti"
Dimensions: 19.7 × 22.3 cm (7 13/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Reference Number: 2016.395

Art Institute of Chicago, Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions, Feb. 7–May 1, 2016, pp. 34 and 56, cat. 13 (ill.); also Morgan Library and Museum, New York, Oct. 12, 2015–Jan. 10, 2016, and Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 27–Sept. 5, 2016.

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