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Don Hazlitt

Shaped Edge

Description

Maker

Don Hazlitt (American, b. 1948)

Title

Shaped Edge

Year

1980

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

wood, oil, metal

Supports

board

Dimensions

66.7 x 25.4 x 4.4 cm (26 1/4 x 10 x 1 3/4 inches) includes wire extension

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed verso in black pen: "Shaped Edge Don Hazlitt 1980"

Credit / Object Number

Credit

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services

Object Number

2009.59.9

Type

Paintings

Exhibition History

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Fifty Works for Rhode Island

Jul 20, 2012 – Dec 02, 2012

Label copy

His corrugated cardboard wall sculptures combine oil paint with Day-Glo pigments on discarded, industrially produced packaging material, giving the traditional medium of painting a vernacular aesthetic. The rough edges and hollow, irregular forms evoke the idea of fragments, and the artist’s use of wooden dowels and hanging pieces of wire suggest an incomplete architecture or process of construction.

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Don Hazlitt (American, b. 1948)

Shaped Edge, 1980

Oil on corrugated cardboard, wood dowels, and wire

66.7 x 25.4 x 4.4 cm (26 1/4 x 10 x 1 3/4 inches) includes wire extension

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