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Egg Series: Forty-nine Ways of Hatching a Cosmic Egg, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-13286-13587

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Scope and Contents

Consists of drawings of the same egg shell in a grid seven by seven. Each egg is formed with "hatched" lines done in a different way, e.g., horizontal, vertical, horizontal slanted, combination of slanted horizontal over slanted vertical, etc. The method of drawing egg shells with hatchings accounts for the title. These hatching styles are reminiscent of the wall drawings by Sol LeWitt.drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1975

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (ink) in frame (wood)) ; 56 x 75 cm, in frame 60 x 79 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

closet front ro

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Woodchester Gloucester, England : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: John Furnival (l.r.). Inscription: dedicated to Jill Patchett & Mike Smith on the occasion of the birth of Sam. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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