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The Evil Root
The Evil Root
The Evil Root

The Evil Root

Artist (born Pueblo, Colorado, 1934; died Corvallis, Oregon, 2011)
Date1962-1963
MediumOil on linen
DimensionsSheet Overall: 48 x 60 in. (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Frame: 49 x 61 in. (124.5 x 154.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1963.8
DescriptionAbstraction. Most of canvas filled with a vertical band of dark red-brown with scratched and painted lighter red-brown marks throughout. The edges of the band thin out to a faint stain and bleed into the off-white canvas on the edges.
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