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I Had a Blueprint of History

2012
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: I Had a Blueprint of History
  • Artist: Lesley Dill (American, born Bronxville, New York, 1950)
  • Author: Tom Sleigh (American, born Mount Pleasant, Texas, 1953)
  • Papermaker: Paul Wong (American, born 1951)
  • Printer: Peter Kruty
  • Publisher: Susan Gosin
  • Publisher: Dieu Donné Papermill
  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Letterpress printing, collage on custom watermarked, cotton and abaca handmade paper
  • Dimensions: 18 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (47.6 × 36.8 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Stewart S. MacDermott Fund, 2019
  • Object Number: 2019.49
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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