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Untitled (Gang drawing)
Untitled (Gang drawing)

Untitled (Gang drawing)

Date1983
Maker Alan Saret American, born 1944
Label TextAlan Saret's Gang Drawing series are deceptive in their simplicity and disguise the process of their making-the artist used only a fistful of colored pencils and applied marks to the surface of the paper. The effect is one that intensifies the relationship between line and volume, whereby the line takes on a sculptural quality. This seemingly spontaneous application of pencils on paper produces an illusion of space within the one-dimensional surface.
Object number86.250
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Smoke and Mirrors", May 10 - November 9, 2008
Credit LineGift of Anne Livet
Dimensions22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
MediumColored pencil on paper
Alan Saret
1978
Object number: 86.275
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Stephen Antonakos
1986
Object number: 2008.29.1
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Stephen Antonakos
1987
Object number: 2008.29.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Stephen Antonakos
1988
Object number: 2008.29.3
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Beverly Pepper
1979
Object number: 98.3.46
Photo: Scott Leen
Saul Steinberg
ca. 1967
Object number: 2022.42.6
Photo: Scott Leen
Saul Steinberg
ca. 1988-90
Object number: 2022.42.13
Tomma Abts
2006
Object number: 2007.7
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark di Suvero
1965
Object number: 81.127
Untitled, from "The Riddle of Pooch Avery"
Charles Avery
2000
Object number: 2002.7
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Mark Dion
2005
Object number: 2007.1.2
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William Anastasi
2004
Object number: 2010.17.1