Virgil Grotfeldt
Useless Echoes Grow to Rhyme

Useless Echoes Grow to Rhyme
Useless Echoes Grow to Rhyme
Useless Echoes Grow to Rhyme
ArtistAmerican, 1948–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Useless Echoes Grow to Rhyme
Date1995
MediumWatercolor, carbon, charcoal on geological drawing
Dimensions11 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (30.3 × 35.2 cm)
Frame: 19 3/4 × 21 13/16 × 7/8 in. (50.2 × 55.4 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
Object number2007.1482
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil recto lower right: "V. Grotfeldt"
Printed labels on verso frame:

"496 Grotfeldt Virgil Useless Echoes Grow to Rhyme"

"Virgil Grotfeldt / Useless Echoes Grow to Ryyme / 1995, watercolor, carbon, charcoal on geological drawing / ... / ViG 70 / Davis/McClain Gallery / Houston, TX... "

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