Drawings

Untitled ("light tower" sketches, two-page spread)

2000

Artists

Otto PieneArtist

Description

Pages 165-166

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and red pen, paper, opaque watercolor, metallic marker, b/w photocopy, and adhesive on paper

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

open (approx.): 35.9 × 51.8 cm (14 1/8 × 20 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

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