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Searching for Bird Bait

Artist Patti Warashina (American, born 1940)
Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)
Date2016
MediumGraphite on paper
DimensionsImage and sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 3/4 inches (13.67 × 9.53 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund
Object number2024.9.225
Edition/State/Proofxerox with handcoloring
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DescriptionThis small graphite concept sketch for "Bird Bait" has an inscription at the top that reads: P. W. “1…Birdbait” There is a vertical rectangle at the center of the small sheet. Moving clockwise from the top of the inside of the rectangle are the numbers 4, 4, 6, 5 (stacked), and 4. At the center of this rectangle there is a square inside of which is the suggestion of a figure against a circle. Below the large rectangle is the inscription: Not Trash!Provenance
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