Blow

1946

Martin T. Stevens, Artist Olga Stevens, Artist

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Title Blow

Artwork Date 1946

Makers Martin T. Stevens (Artist) American, 1904 - 1983 Olga Stevens (Artist) American

Medium Wood, cloth and paint

Dimensions Overall: 25 × 6 3/8 × 9 1/4 inches (63.5 × 16.2 × 23.5 cm)

Classification Puppets

Department Performing Arts

Credit Gift of the artists and the Puppeteers of America

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 55.27

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the artists, Martin T. and Olga Stevens, and Puppeteers of America

1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Martin T. Stevens; Olga Stevens, Blow, 1946, wood, cloth and paint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the artists and the Puppeteers of America, 55.27.

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