Untitled, 1977

  • Gordon Newton, American, 1948 - 2019

Black ballpoint pen on lined white composition paper

  • Sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 inches (21.6 × 17.8 cm)

Gift of James Pearson Duffy

1999.930.1

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed, [page is divided from top to bottom into four rectangles], in black ballpoint pen, in the top rectangle: 1977 | #1 Jan. Feb March large 4 x 8' Inscribed, in second rectangle: #II [small sketch of a roller coaster] | May + June 1st Coaster | Horizontal 6' long Inscribed, in third rectangle: June + July Second Coaster | Horizontal 6' long. | Double mounted on 1 Board Inscribed, in bottom rectangle: #III | [small drawing of a roller coaster] | 6 [with arrows extending out both to the left and right from the number] Inscribed, verso, [also outlined or framed in a rectangle] top center: IV | [small drawing of a roller coaster] | Steep Coaster Project. | "L" Shape cardboard | July + Aug. Inscribed, to right of above mentioned drawing [with arrows projecting from lines of this text to the drawing]: VERTICAL | [illegible] chart | showing | daily record | pump + trusing Inscribed, lower center of sheet, below and between two sketches: clothes | tent drop cloth + tape | Wed. camera film | shovel axe | cooking utensils matches | Coleman fuel flashlight. Inscribed, in pencil, verso of backcover of composition pad, upper left: 561

James Pearson Duffy (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Gordon Newton, Untitled, 1977, black ballpoint pen on lined white composition paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James Pearson Duffy, 1999.930.1.