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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Robert Carston Arneson
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Title
- A Hollow Gesture
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1980
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Medium
- Color lithograph on white wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 102.6 × 76.6 cm (40 7/16 × 30 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Stanley and Norman Freehling
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Reference Number
- 1980.395
Extended information about this artwork
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