Kurt Kemp
Yellow Sleep

Yellow Sleep
Yellow Sleep
Yellow Sleep
ArtistAmerican, born 1957
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Yellow Sleep
Date2001
PlaceTexas, United States
MediumCollage of cut printed paper, paper tags and folders, and tracing paper with monotype, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic paint, etching and aquatint, watercolor, charcoal, ink, and ballpoint pen on cut board
DimensionsSheet (irregular): 53 × 40 in. (134.6 × 101.6 cm)
Frame (outer): 59 3/8 × 46 7/16 × 1 7/8 in. (150.8 × 118 × 4.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Renée Wallace
Object number2001.765
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Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There is a gallery label on the verso of the frame: "Kurt Kemp / Yellow Sheep / 2001 / monoprint, collage, graphite, ink / 53 x 40 / (KK01 17) / Hooks-Epstein Galleries / 2631 Colquitt Houston, TX 77098 / (713) 522-0718"
The collage is signed in pencil, in the lower right of the collaged book cover in the upper center: "Kemp"

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