1972
A piece of paper was cut from the page of a publication, isolating the word FLASH (white on black with lines radiating around it), and cut into the shape of a flaming, irregularly seven-pointed star standing on a broad base. The front was spray-painted with black, using a large washer or some such perforated disk as a stencil after the sheet was somewhat gray, so that the end effect is of a gray iris with a black pupil centering the black star-like form. This was then folded vertically, eye/star side out, and inserted into an envelope with a glassine window, so that half of the eye/star peers out. This original orientation is only presumed, since the envelope was opened by its recipient, and the object inside must have been removed and reinserted many times.
envelope: 9.2 x 15.7 cm (3 5/8 x 6 3/16 in.) star (greatest dimension): 10.4 x 13.6 cm (4 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
[Steven Lieber, San Francisco] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2004
Charcoal on paper
20th centuryAmericanGraphite on paper
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19th-20th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
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20th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper (recto and verso)
19th-20th centuryAmericanWatercolor on darkened cream wove paper
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