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Lead & Ivory #22
Lead & Ivory #22
Lead & Ivory #22

Lead & Ivory #22

Artist (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 frame
Text 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.
On View
Not on view
Fan I
Dana Newmann
2008
Fan II
Dana Newmann
2008
Lead Book
Doris Cross
1982 - 1983
Organ
Gustave Baumann
mid 20th Century
New Mexico Sunrise
Lorenzo Pimentel
2009
Chest
Charles Leroy Delcamp
1935
South facing wall
Martí Anson
2008
Victorian Child Thinking
Olivia Parker
1985
Untitled (plate)
Thomas Barrow
1994
Goddess Pantry #5
Judith Vejvoda
1998