Smoke Rings June 14, 2001 / Donald Sultan
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.159A-D
- Title
- Smoke Rings June 14, 2001
- Artist
- Donald Sultan
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1951
- Medium and Support
- spackle and tar on tile over masonite
- Object Creation Date
- 2001
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and the Friends of the Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 243.8 cm x 243.8 cm (96 in. x 96 in.)
- Century
- 21st century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- still life
- Physical Description
- Against a black background three smoke rings hang, connected by wafts of smoke. Two of the rings are in the viewer's lower left. One is in the viewer's upper right.
- Subject Matter
- The tradition of still life painting applied to the ephemeral phenomenon of smoke rings. Emphasizes the beauty of the everyday and of transient things.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 327 x 330
- File Size
- 27 KB
- Record
- 2006/1.159A-D
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.159a-d/2006_1.159a-d.jpg
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"Smoke Rings June 14, 2001; Donald Sultan." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.159a-d/2006_1.159a-d.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
