Marvin Harden

What Can One Say About A Life So Suddenly Rushed, Soonly Hushed
1970

A minimalist artwork featuring a central rectangular frame with a textured pattern, a small botanical illustration in the upper part, and a tiny figure of a cow in the lower right corner, all on a cream-colored paper background with a signature at the bottom left.
A minimalist artwork featuring a central rectangular frame with a textured pattern, a small botanical illustration in the upper part, and a tiny figure of a cow in the lower right corner, all on a cream-colored paper background with a signature at the bottom left.

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Date
1970

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 30 × 22 1/4in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)

Accession number
70.1595

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Marvin Harden
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