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Sketch for Area Code

Artist/Maker (American, 1933–2017)
Date1970
MediumCrayon, pastel, graphite, and ink on paper
DimensionsImage: 4 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (10.8 × 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 23 in. (35.7 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineOberlin Friends of Art and Richard Lee Ripin Art Purchase Funds
Object number2006.30.1
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Estate of James Rosenquist / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkMore Information
This drawing was preparatory to a painting of the same year now in the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and reprises the composition of a color lithograph made by the artist one year earlier. The title and composition allude to telephone communications, sliced cables and broken connections, while feather-like forms in the upper left suggest a bird in flight.
Exhibition History
Recent Acquisitions, 2007
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 2, 2007 - September 3, 2007 )
Out of Line: Drawings from the Allen from the Twentieth Century and Beyond
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 1, 2009 - December 23, 2009 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary