Lead & Ivory #22

Artist: Dana Newmann (American, born 1937)

Date: 2010

Medium: Lead and ivory piano keys

Classification: Assemblage

Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds from David and Gita Kronen, 2011

Keywords and Associated Locations:

ivory
lead
pianos
found objects

Object number: 2011.30.3

Description

Dana Newmann is a visual hunter/gatherer who acquires a wide variety of found objects that are then put in dialogue with each other through collage and assemblage. Lead & Ivory #22 consists of a lead frame surrounding 19th-century ivory piano keys arranged as a reductive white-against-white grid. Newmann’s artworks invoke other collage and assemblage artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, and Hannah Hoch.

Not on view

Publication and Exhibition History: 2010: "LEAD/GLASS,” Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe