Benjamin Jones

Benjamin: Figure
1994–1999

A childlike drawing of a figure with a large head and a small body on a white sheet of paper, framed by a brown cardboard background. The figure has two dark, circular eyes and a scribbled mouth, with a blue rectangular shape on its torso. The bottom left corner of the white sheet is adorned with a small piece of blue polka-dotted tape. Handwritten text along the right edge of the paper reads "Benjamin Jones 1952."
A childlike drawing of a figure with a large head and a small body on a white sheet of paper, framed by a brown cardboard background. The figure has two dark, circular eyes and a scribbled mouth, with a blue rectangular shape on its torso. The bottom left corner of the white sheet is adorned with a small piece of blue polka-dotted tape. Handwritten text along the right edge of the paper reads "Benjamin Jones 1952."

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Date
1994–1999

Classification
Books

Medium
Graphite pencil, wax crayon, brush and ink, opaque watercolor, postage stamps, collaged elements(drawings mounted in book); Japanese style stab binding; corrugated paper covers

Dimensions
Book: 11 × 8 1/4 × 15/16in. (27.9 × 21 × 2.4 cm)

Accession number
2002.298

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Judith Alexander

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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