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Artist: James Castle

drawing on small rectangle of paper with tilted purple square at center featuring an abstracted portrait; the text “free!” in white set within a red oblong shape overlaps the purple square at TL; small green rectangle floats over BRQ of purple square; abstracted face in ULC and to right center of purple square; two green “peaks” at URC; variety of shapes and lines make up rest of composition in green, yellow, red, blue, purple, and black pigments; there is a ½” strip at R edge of paper that is white save four distinct, vertically-oriented green rectangles; frame backing has “James Castle, jca 0674.20, CA 26219” written in black ink at TLC; printed label with artist name, title, medium, and dimensions affixed to backing along with “Knoedler & Company” label, framers label, a red ticket marked “sold,” and a side from an old ice cream box marked, “Home Dairies vanilla ice cream”

Date
after 1960
In our collection
since August the 31st, 2014 up to now
Dimensions
5 × 6 1/2 in. (12.7 × 16.51 cm) (sheet) 13 1/8 × 14 3/8 in. (33.34 × 36.51 cm) (outer frame)
Location
Not on View
Medium
Color of unknown origin and soot on off-white wax-coated cardboard with roughened surface (commercially printed Home Dairies vanilla ice cream carton)
Price
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Composition
zinc69%
atium29%
iron0%
cadmium2%