Michael Hurson

Study for a Column
1983

Vertical abstract artwork featuring a central hourglass shape created with overlapping black and red lines on a background of horizontal and vertical lines, suggesting a grid-like structure. The piece has a sketch-like quality with visible erasures and alterations, and there are small blue plus signs at the bottom and top edges.
Vertical abstract artwork featuring a central hourglass shape created with overlapping black and red lines on a background of horizontal and vertical lines, suggesting a grid-like structure. The piece has a sketch-like quality with visible erasures and alterations, and there are small blue plus signs at the bottom and top edges.

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Date
1983

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fabricated chalk on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight, overall): 43 5/16 × 11 3/4in. (110 × 29.8 cm)

Accession number
2024.123

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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