Hybrid Sample Box
1965
Artists
Dimensions
Box closed: 11.1 x 25.4 x 27 cm (4 3/8 x 10 x 10 5/8 in.)
Provenance
[Kornblee Gallery, New York]; John and Kimiko Powers, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1977.
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