1995.279: Earth Telephone
MultiplesA rectangular print that is shown vertically. It is white on the bottom half and grey on the top half with highlights of vertical lines. There is a vintage black rotary phone next to a round, black object just above the center of the piece. Below are “Beuys” and a cross written in grey in capital letters.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.279
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Schellmann
- Title
- Earth Telephone
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Erdtelephon
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- print, multiple
- Date
- 1973
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219049
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink on white paper
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- 99 x 60 cm (39 x 23 5/8 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 100 plus XII
- Standard Reference Number
- Schellmann 79, p. 115
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.279
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim
Exhibition History
- In/Tuition: a seminar's engagement with Joseph Beuys, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/20/1997 - 12/07/1997
- Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
- 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 04/07/2017
Verification Level
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