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13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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| Accession #: | 4395.38 |
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| Title: | 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
| Object Type: | Collage |
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| Physical Description: | Thirteen mixed media on paper framed in a horizontal line. (A) silhouette of a blackbird looking right in front of a background of grey and white triangles. (B) silhouette of a face looking left with an orange grid over the face and two birds on a limb in the upper right quadrant of the head. The background is white. (C) Black and grey abstract swirls. The grey background has a grid on it, the black is the swirl. (D) Silhouette of a blackbird looking left. The bird's head is above the square of the paper. There is a strip of red and grey across the top half below the head, the remainder is black and white. (E) Two silhouettes of blackbirds, both looking right, the leftmost has an open beak and is black on white background, the rightmost has a closed beak and is grey striped on a black background. (F) Square broken into quadrants with white, it looks like two grey birds in flight one going each direction. (G) Grey and white sketch of a bird pecking at a white area. (H) grey bird facing right, the bird's open beak is in the eye area of a face also facing right, the background is black. (I) black tail feathers and wings flying off the left side of the square with a off-white background. (J) green and black jumble of birds. (K) black abstract shape of an upside-down bird on a sketchy grey field with black borders. (L) Blue river on black landscape with black V-shaped bird on a white and faintly blue sky. (M) black background with a white line drawn square with horizontal lines, an abstracted skull, and a bird in place of the skull's nose. |
| Category: | Art |
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Object H x W 23.75 x 207"
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paper (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Gift of the Washington Art Consortium through gift of Safeco Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group, 2017 |
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