About the Artwork
Blinded Oedipus
1931
Robert Edmond Jones (Artist) American Remo Bufano (Maker) American, 1894-1948
Papier-mâché, wood, paint, and cloth
Overall: 100 × 19 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches (254 × 49.5 × 14.6 cm)
Puppets
Performing Arts
Gift of Cedric and Lee Head in memory of Mabel Kingsland Head
54.508
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Cedric and Lee Head
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 1 (1955-56): pp. 24.
Bell, John. Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, ca. 2000, (color ill.) p. 63.
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Robert Edmond Jones; Remo Bufano, Blinded Oedipus, 1931, papier-mâché, wood, paint, and cloth. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Cedric and Lee Head in memory of Mabel Kingsland Head, 54.508.
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