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Early American Document

Image courtesy of Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA

Early American Document

2008

Titus Kaphar

American, born 1976

Throughout American history, settlers have explored new terrain and relayed their impressions of the expeditions by writing to their families, friends and colleagues back home. Early American Document is Kaphar's rendering of what he imagined the papers to look like.
Tar on paper
59 x 48 1/2in. (149.9 x 123.2cm)
Gift of the artist and Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
2009.32
Provenance: The artist
Image courtesy of Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Titus Kaphar: History in the Making", April 4 - September 7, 2009

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