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Mask

Artist: Saul Baizerman, American, 1889-1957
Medium: Hammered copper
Dates: ca. 1940s
Dimensions: 14 x 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (35.6 x 21.6 x 15.9 cm)
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 1992.52.1
Credit Line: Gift of Irene Worth in honor of Joan Hay Baizerman
Image: Front, 1992.52.1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005

Catalogue Description: Sheet of copper molded into mask of front of female head; truncated at neck; faintly molded and simplified features; overall pitted texture. Condition: Good; linear break in hair at the top of head

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