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Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed
 1970

Medium
colour lithograph on black paper
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Henry and Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1984
© James Rosenquist/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
colour lithograph on black paper
Measurements
55.1 × 75.4 cm (image and sheet)
Place/s of Execution
New York, New York, United States
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Glenn 32; Dean 57
Edition
printer’s proof ed. 1/2
Printing/Publishing
printed by Fred Genis and Irwin Hollander, Hollanders Workshop; published by Castelli Graphics & Hollanders Worshop, New York
Inscription
inscribed in pencil (in image) u.r.: HIGH TENSION / - LEAD IN / SILVER OR CLEAR / WIRE
inscribed in pencil (in image) c.l.: DIAMETER / ABOUT 66
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.c.l.: CLEAR BLUE NEON / HUNG THROUGH MIDDLE / OF WIRE
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil (in image) l.c.l.: Printers / Proof ½
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil (in image) l.l.: Tumbleweed chrome plated (…illeg.) wire sculpture 1964
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.r.: 15000 VOLT / TRANSFORMER INSIDE / STEEL U-SHAPE LEG / BOLTED TO WOOD / Jim Rosenquist 1970
chopmark l.r.: (chook)
Accession Number
P166-1984
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Henry and Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1984
© James Rosenquist/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Utilitarian Objects
Subjects (specific)
barbed wire black (colour) blue (colour) dark (colour attribute) diagonal lines (artistic concept)
Movements
Pop (fine arts styles)

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