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Notes on Bronze Project
ca. 1984
Gordon Newton
1948 - 2019
American
Unknown
Blue ballpoint pen and black felt tipped marker on lined yellow composition paper
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 7/16 inches (27 × 21.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of James Pearson Duffy
1999.945
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Markings
Inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, top to bottom of the entire sheet: Language [circled] | NOTES ON BRONZE PROJECT | QUEEN PLANET, DRONE PLANET | WRITTEN + PICTORIAL RECORDS KEPT, | SIGNS = SYMBOLS | MOTHER PLANET (A or #) | --INFRA STRUCTURE [sic] | COLONIES | DIGITAL EGYPT | PIGMENTATION | [the next five inscription are wedged in diagonally between the last line] "PIGMENTATION' [and] "TRACES LEFT BY" [with a line that appears to connect them with the] "TRACES LEFT BY" [inscription] (MONUMENTS) ? [sic] | MATERIAL USED ? | SYMBOLS -- ? WHAT SYSTEM | WHAT LANGUAGE ? | TRACES LEFT BY | PAST CIVILIZATION | HOW WERE THESE | RECORDS KEPT, WHAT METHOD = | MATERIAL, WHAT SYSTEM? | WHAT | LANGUAGE ???? [circled] | Bronze Age [circled] Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: 554
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James Pearson Duffy (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Gordon Newton, Notes on Bronze Project, ca. 1984, blue ballpoint pen and black felt tipped marker on lined yellow composition paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James Pearson Duffy, 1999.945.
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