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Charred Journal: Firewritten I, 1951, 39 x 30 in. (99.1 x 76.2 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, Inscribed, back, u.r.: Louis 51; stretcher, u.l.: Journal (Part 1), du30

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Rights administered by Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Collection:

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States. Gift of Ira M. Lowe, 2011

Provenance:

The artist

Dee Church, Washington, D.C.

Daniel Millsaps, Washington, D.C.

Ira M. Lowe, Washington, D.C.

Exhibitions:

Rehoboth, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.: Gallery Nuki, 1976

Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts), on extended loan from 1978

(E 366): Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts (bw, p. 52), 1979–80

References:

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 30, color, p.136

(B 418): Elderfield 1986, bw, p. 10

(B 475): Humblet 2003, color, p. 145

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