Lead & Ivory #22
Artist
Dana Newmann
(American, born 1937)
Date2010
MediumLead and ivory piano keys
Dimensions12 x 9 1/16 x 7/8 in. (30.5 x 23 x 2.2 cm)
ClassificationsAssemblage
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from David and Gita Kronen, 2011
Object number2011.30.3
Description19th-century ivory piano keys surrounded by lead frameText Entries
Adhesive used is Weldbond Universal Adhesive. Artist provided documentation of purchase of ivory piano keys; vendor certifies that the piano from which the keys were taken was imported into the United States before 1989, per U.S. Fish and Wildlife guidelines and the Endangered Species Act.
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.
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