Alice Aycock
Collected Stories from the Workhouse (Model)

Collected Stories from the Workhouse (Model)
Collected Stories from the Workhouse (Model)
Collected Stories from the Workhouse (Model)
ArtistAmerican, born 1946
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Collected Stories from the Workhouse (Model)
  • from the series How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts
Date1979–1980
MediumGlass and mixed metal assemblage on a steel base
Dimensions19 3/4 × 42 × 48 in. (50.2 × 106.7 × 121.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Kathleen Adkins
Object number2002.446
Not on view

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Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Object Type
ProvenanceGiven to MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 10/18/2003-2/8/2004.

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