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Imperial Progress Insistently Swept the Remnants of Eden from Where the Hot Slept
Imperial Progress Insistently Swept the Remnants of Eden from Where the Hot Slept

Imperial Progress Insistently Swept the Remnants of Eden from Where the Hot Slept

Series TitleFish Tank Sonata
Artist Arthur Tress (American, born 1940)
Date1989
MediumColor print
DimensionsOverall: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Drs. Antonio S. and Luz S. Racela
Object numberF96-49/23
Signedverso, lower right, in pen
Edition/State/Proof5/50
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DescriptionView of a fish tank on a base in a marshy area of a lake. In the tank a woman talking on a telephone; a palm tree; a British flag; and an elephant being attacked by tigers, one which wears a safari hat. On top of the elephant is a "native" and an automobile.
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