UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection

West Gallery - On Site Exhibition
The Sheet by Gerald Gooch
The Sheet by Gerald Gooch

The Sheet

  • Graphite on paper
  • 29.5 x 41.5 x 1 in
  • Gerald Gooch
  • Available

Gerald Gooch
The Sheet, 1969
Graphite on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Patrick Duffy and Wally Goodman, Goodman Duffy Collection, 2006.
2021.08.080

Item description: A realistic greyscale drawing of a bed with plain bedding and a dark headboard filling up the center of the paper. The sheet is contorted and raised by the head, revealing no more than the impression of a humanoid figure splayed underneath, which casts a rounded shadow onto the right side of the headboard.

  • Framed: 29.5 x 41.5 x 1 in
  • Created: 1969
  • Inventory Number: 2021.08.080
  • Collections: Las Vegas Art Museum Collection, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
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