Nancy Graves

Cutting the Hair of a Bactrian

1970

Large colored drawing of a tent being set up with camels and people making ropes.
Large colored drawing of a tent being set up with camels and people making ropes.

Nancy Graves, Cutting the Hair of a Bactrian, 1970. Pen and ink and opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 13 7/8 × 17 in. (35.2 × 43.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 70.1594. © The Nancy Graves Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Date
1970

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 17 in. (35.2 × 43.2 cm)

Accession number
70.1594

Credit line
Purchase

Rights and reproductions
© The Nancy Graves Foundation, Inc. / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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