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Abstraction

Artist: Warren Wheelock, American, 1880-1960
Medium: Carrara marble
Dates: 1943
Dimensions: 28 15/16 x 18 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (73.5 x 47.9 x 24.8 cm)
Signature: Incised along lower edge of middle section: "W. Wheelock '43"
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 49.90
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Image: Back, 49.90_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Carved abstract sculpture; overall flat, oblong shape with intersecting faceted, curved, and convex planes; hole pierced through top section; carving marks all over surface polished to varying degrees of smoothness. Condition: Good.

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