Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty) / Jene Highstein

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Accession Number
2008/2.232
Title
Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
(1942 - )
Medium and Support
graphite on paper
Object Creation Date
1987
Object Creation Place
North America
American
Creation Place 1
North America
Creation Place 2
American
Style/Group/Movement
post-Minimalism
Dimensions
56 cm x 62.8 cm (22 1/16 in. x 24 3/4 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Drawing
Primary Object Type
prepatory drawing
Physical Description
Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7’ x 7’ x 2’) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.
Subject Matter
In this early-stage proposal for a commission for General Mills Collection, Highstein works in his characteristic fusion of Minimalist and organic form, scoring an ovoid, egg-like shape with a grid. The original plan as shown here was to stack and carve seven blocks of Canadian black granite each at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ into the proposed shape. The company, however, delivered blocks from different sections of the quarry, which resulted in the blocks behaving erratically when carved. The design of the sculpture had to be improvised as it went along, and so the drawing doesn’t resemble the completed work very closely.
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Image Size
2978 x 2651
File Size
1 MB
Record
2008/2.232
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.232/2008_2_232.jpg

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"Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty); Jene Highstein." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.232/2008_2_232.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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