I Want You Two to Know Each Other, Because It's Going to Be a Mind Expanding Experience for Both of You
Charles Saxon
Contemporary Art
MEDIUM
Ink and crayon on paper mounted to paperboard mat
DATES
1968
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 16 11/16 x 12 in. (42.4 x 30.5 cm)
mat (sheet mounted to): 20 1/16 x 15 1/16 in. (51 x 38.3 cm)
(show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed in ink at lower right: "Saxon"
INSCRIPTIONS
On recto: title inscribed in graphite at bottom of mat, "'I want you two to know each other, because it's going to / be a mind-expanding experience for both of you.'"; on verso, various numbers and stamps, including stamp in center that reads, "COPYRIGHT 1968 / THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ... "
ACCESSION NUMBER
68.103.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the artist
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Charles Saxon (American, 1920–1988). I Want You Two to Know Each Other, Because It's Going to Be a Mind Expanding Experience for Both of You, 1968. Ink and crayon on paper mounted to paperboard mat, sheet: 16 11/16 x 12 in. (42.4 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 68.103.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.68.103.1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall,
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