Michael Hurson

Artist at Work #3
1981

A stylized drawing of a person with exaggerated features wearing glasses, a white shirt, and blue jeans, standing against a dark background with a hand extended forward as if holding something. The artwork has a rough, sketch-like quality with visible strokes and marks.
A stylized drawing of a person with exaggerated features wearing glasses, a white shirt, and blue jeans, standing against a dark background with a hand extended forward as if holding something. The artwork has a rough, sketch-like quality with visible strokes and marks.

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Date
1981

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite, pastel, and fabricated chalk on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 29 7/8 × 27 7/8in. (75.9 × 70.8 cm)

Accession number
2024.121

Edition
3/3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Michael Hurson. Courtesy of Debra George and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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