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Modern Warrior Series: War Shirt #5 - Homeland
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Modern Warrior Series: War Shirt #5 - Homeland

Artist Bently Spang (North American Indian, Northern Cheyenne, Montana, born 1960)
Date2016
MediumChromogenic prints, hemp, plastic, metal, glass beads, and turquoise
DimensionsOverall: 22 1/4 × 58 1/4 × 6 inches (56.52 × 147.96 × 15.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: A. Keith Brodkin Fund for the Acquisition of Contemporary American Indian Art
Object number2016.60
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Not on view
DescriptionThree-dimensional assemblage of printed photographs linked together with imitation sinew to form a war shirt.Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013-2016.
Published References
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Bently Spang
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