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Mark Heresy
Father1991

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Artist or Maker
Mark Heresy
United States, California, born 1964
Title
Father
Date Made
1991
Medium
Carved wooden skull and bones on flag-covered swastika, trimmed with rifle bullets and Coors cans, with three pages of text
Dimensions
Overall: 44 3/4 × 45 1/4 × 10 in. (113.67 × 114.94 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.94 × 21.59 cm) Frames (each): 12 1/8 × 9 5/8 × 1 in. (30.8 × 24.45 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Stuart and Judy Spence in memory of Greg Escalante
Accession Number
M.2017.286.3.1-.6
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art

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