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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.7.49
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Untitled (notes, left page); Untitled (notes and small illustrations, right page)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Honolulu/Food Show/Boston
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1974
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374949

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored marker and black pen on paper
Dimensions
open (approx.): 39.2 × 55.9 cm (15 7/16 × 22 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Left page, in black pen: : Smithsonian / Bos., III-16-80 / History & Tech. Mus. / List of suggestions / Carl 4 elements / as 4 solids / (fountain / or / alone) / prisms & mirrors / play of reflected / sun light through / mirrors / weather vane // Piotr (& O.P. in some cases) / rerouting of traffic / + optical canopy or shelter / aeolian harp (wi. O.P. windsocks / wind sc.[ulpture]s / paint/coat t. bldg. / w. optical material // O. Rock garden + plants + stepstones / water / (geology from 50 states)
  • inscription: Right page, in black pen:: (+ plough shears) / filed of wind sculpt.s & wind s.s / glass star (parking lot) / wind wheel/sun sculpture / Van de Graaff [sic] generator / roof mist & laser + receptacle / medallions/symbols o[f] t[he] states / ivy
  • inscription: Right page, annotations around proposed designs, in black marker:: rock garden // (on wall slabs / or retaining wall / outside) // (mirrors set / into geological / rock / garden?) // mirror/soloar / mirror / in the / form / of plough / shears?) // laser projections / & receiving wall /steam or mist to project through // windsocks / stat emblems?
  • inscription: Right page, l.l., upward near spine:: Bos., 24-III-'80

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
Copyright
© Otto Piene Estate
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.7.49
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pages 97-98

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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Verification Level

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