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Kite Visions in Flight

© Floyd Newsum

Kite Visions in Flight
Kite Visions in Flight
ArtistAmerican, 1950–2024
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Kite Visions in Flight
Date2008
MediumAcrylic, oil stick, crayon, oil pastel and graphite on acrylic gel and gesso coated wove paper; with collage of cut and pasted half-tone print, ink on colored wove paper, and ink and watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm)
Frame (outer): 46 3/4 × 66 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (118.7 × 169.5 × 6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Janice and Floyd Newsum
Object number2020.484
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
Ll 20 Public Corridor
On view

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ProvenanceThe artist; given to MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History“Now and Forever: The Art of Floyd Newsum,” Houston Museum of African American Culture, September 17–November 12, 2016.

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