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Ancient Battlefield

Artist Larry Johnson (American, born 1935)
Date1958
MediumCollage on masonite
DimensionsUnframed: 44 3/4 x 37 1/8 inches (113.665 x 94.2975 cm)
Framed: 46 1/2 x 39 inches (118.11 x 99.06 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 8th Mid-America Annual Exhibition to the Mid-America Annual Collection
Object numberF58-39
Signedl.l.: "Johnson '58"
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DescriptionMasonite sheet mounted on larger Masonite panel which is painted black and provides 1/2-inch margin around mounted sheet. Brown and dun-colored composition, touched with black, of glued irregular cardboard fragments and crumpled paper sections dominated on top by oblong cardboard to which, upper right, round cardboard element is stapled.
Copyright© Larry Johnson
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