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Charred Journal: Firewritten V, 1951, 34 x 26 in. (86.4 x 66.0 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, Inscribed, stretcher bar, upper right corner, du33

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Collection:

The Jewish Museum, New York, United States. Gift of Ruth Bocour in memory of Leonard Bocour, 1994

Provenance:

The artist

Leonard and Ruth Bocour, New York

Exhibitions:

(E 12): Washington, D.C.: Workshop Art Center Gallery (cat. no. 5), 1953

(E 480): Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art; San Diego, California: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (cat. no. 1, color, p. 63), 2006-2008

References:

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 33, color, p.136

(B 485): Godfrey 2007, fig. 17, bw, p. 44

(B 489): Hardy 2007, fig. 26, color, p. 64

(B 497): Kleeblatt 2008, color, p. 255

Wolff, Janet, The Aestethics of Uncertainty (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), bw, p. 55

(B 516): Wilken 2014, color, p. 12

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