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Compressed Skull

Compressed Skull
Compressed Skull
Compressed Skull
ArtistAmerican, born 1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Compressed Skull
Date2004
MediumColored pencil over graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 20 1/4 × 16 1/16 in. (51.4 × 40.8 cm)
 Frame: 22 13/16 × 18 5/8 × 2 1/16 in. (57.9 × 47.3 × 5.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of John Friedman / Easton Capital Collection
Object number2025.393
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, 2004; John Friedman, New York, NY, by 2025; given to MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition Historynone known
Published References none Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: [none]
Verso: [inaccessible]
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Catalogue raisonnénone

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