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Real and Imagined Sketchbook Pages 2004-05 Gouache on paper 9 x 12 inches
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From the APS Collections: sketchbook pages featuring studies of flora and fauna [below]. Above several contemporary pages created by the artist. |
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Found object 20th century Watercolor 10" x 8"
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Wall label: "This chart was found in an old book on color theory by Sue Johnson, who associated it with the color palettes of Rembrandt Peale. The chart links each color to a specific emotion." |
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Sample of Moondust (Facsimile) and
Polygraph Machine 2005 Photocopy 11 x 8.5 inches
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Free take-away from the exhibition created by the artist. Juxtaposed to the Hawkins’ Patent Polygraph (1803). Thomas Jefferson and Charles Willson Peale promoted its use. Jefferson, who wrote thousands of personal and professional letters, was a particularly enthusiastic ... (excerpted from the exhibition wall label) |
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Right: Color way for ENIAC control panel
[not adopted] After Mondrian. Left:
Color way proposed by the artist (After
Nature) 2004-05 Gouache on paper 8 x 5 inches
Work from APS Collection in exhibition: Original blueprints for the ENIAC, the the world's first electronic digital computer developed in 1946 [Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer].
Artist's works now in the Collection of the Museum of the American Philosophical Society |
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Contemporary Silhouette Blacks 2005 Found object construction 12" x 9"
On left, from the text label: "In 1802, artist Charles Willson Peale purchased a small machine for making silhouettes of his museum visitors. The ”physiognotrace” outlined the shadow cast on a sheet ..."
On right: Contemporary Silhouette Blacks |
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Silhouette blacks: A color chart of
commercially available blacks for
silhouette portraits, 2005 color samples collected from paint
stores
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Sample book included the exhibition. Colors at left are from the sample book. Examples: Blacksmith, Umbrella Black, Midnight Sky, Black Magic, Black Bean, Napolean, Black Forest, Black Raisin, Blindfold, Chimney Smoke, Ebony Field... |
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Bikini Atoll Noir, a new pigment color
created for the 20th century 2004-05 Watercolor and transfer on paper 10 x 10 inches
At right from APS Collection: series of six photographs documenting the nuclear bomb detonations at Bikini Atoll which occured between 1946-58.
Artist's work now in the Collection of the Museum of the American Philosophical Society |
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Embroidery (right) after A. Lindo
Patterson's molecular map (left) 2004-05 Colored threads on fabric 18 x 12 inches
Installation view in display cabinets
Artist's work now in the Collection of the Museum of the American Philosophical Society
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Colors Associated with Spirit Residue 2004 Gouache on paper 18" x 18"
Wall label: "In the spirit of 19th-century spirit photographs (in the case to your left), artist appropriates color theorist Johannes Itten’s model of a twelve-pointed star to propose the range of colors found in the “residue” of spirit encounters. To enable the naked eye to perceive the “residue color,” she playfully says she enhanced it over 1000 times. She then tinted its hues in two steps to white (towards the center of the star) and shaded them in two steps to black (towards the points)."
On left, Photo (similar to those on exhibit): Spirit of Bien Boa, ca.1905
Label on verso: Annals of Psychic Science
Eugène Rochas Papers, APS
Artist's work now in the Collection of the Museum of the American Philosophical Society |
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Colors detected on bees knees 2004-05 Watercolor on paper Private Collection
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From the APS Collection: 18th century amateur book with instructions on beekeeping accompanied by humorous sketches |
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