About the Artwork
Kodachrome Twi-night Lens
1974
Gordon Newton
1948 - 2019
American
Unknown
Colored ballpoint pen on white wove paper
Sheet: 7 × 8 1/2 inches (17.8 × 21.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of James Pearson Duffy
1999.186
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Markings
Signed, in blue ballpoint pen, upper right, verso: gordon 1/74
Inscribed, in green ballpoint pen, lower left: KODACHROME | BEND [crossed out and replaced with:] LENS Inscribed, in graphite, lower center: [crossed-out inscription] Inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, below the crossed-out inscription, lower center: KODACHROME | TWI-NITE LENS Inscribed, in green ballpoint pen, lower right: KODACHROME | LENS NIGHT Inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, over the inscription in green, lower right: BEND | KODACHROME | [crossed-out inscription] Inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, lower center below and beside other sketches, verso: dual Revolving turntables | Kodachrome II | on glass | continents adrift?
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1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Gordon Newton, Kodachrome Twi-night Lens, 1974, colored ballpoint pen on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James Pearson Duffy, 1999.186.
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