Carl Andre

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(from YUCATAN)

1973, printed 1982

Abstract grid of red and black letters arranged in vertical and horizontal blocks on white background.
Abstract grid of red and black letters arranged in vertical and horizontal blocks on white background.

Not on view

Date
1973, printed 1982

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photocopy

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) Image: 9 15/16 × 7 3/8 in. (25.2 × 18.7 cm)

Accession number
2013.83.2

Edition
AP 7/13 | Ed. 75

Publication
Published by Anthology Film Archives

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Carl Andre / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/43419

Part of a series:
A Portfolio of Thirteen Prints to Commemorate the Conversion of New York City's Second Avenue Courthouse Building into the New Home of Anthology Film Archives, the First Museum Dedicated to Avantgarde Film and Video
13 works

Two colorized film-strip portraits of a young person with a half-face pink overlay.
Two green-framed windows stand in a landscape, the right window glass shattered into star-shaped cracks.
A large solid black triangular shape tilts slightly on a white background like abstract art.
A technical-style drawing showing layered geometric planes and textured landscape sections connected by angular pathways.
A pale green textured rectangle with faint concentric circle patterns centered on off-white paper.
Several vintage women's portraits are arranged in a dark collage with a handwritten signature below.
Colorful collage combining geometric shapes, photographic figures, a red stripe, and repeated crowd silhouettes.
A caregiver watches two toddlers on the floor, one reaching toward the other while one cries.
A minimalist artwork featuring a large, centered grey rectangle with a textured appearance, surrounded by a white border with rough, uneven edges.
A peculiar mound of red, orange, yellow, and green leaves sits at the side of the road beside woods full of leaves of the same colors.

Carl Andre
14 works in the collection, 8 exhibitions

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