3 Stooges / Robert Beckley
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.98
- Title
- 3 Stooges
- Artist
- Robert Beckley
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1934
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- 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
- Gift of Joanne Leonard
- Dimensions
- 31.1 cm x 41.3 cm x 2.5 cm (12 1/4 in. x 16 1/4 in. x 1 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Photograph
- Primary Object Type
- black and white print
- Physical Description
- This black and white photograph has a horizontal format depicting three headshots of men with their faces obscured. There are handdrawn forms- a cone on the face of one man and a hexagram (six-pointed star; Star of David), a tiny square and a square divided into four parts below the headshots.
- Subject Matter
- This is a photograph of wall graffitti that was taken in Paris in 2001. Robert Beckley was a professor and Dean of the UM Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. This photograph was displayed at an exhibition of his work at the Slusser Gallery following his retirement. His artist statement explains, "The abstract forms one can find on the walls of a city have become my canvas. The urban landscape is for me what the natural landscape is for others. The inessential background of the city becomes the foreground in my lens."
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2552 x 1759
- File Size
- 180 KB
- Record
- 2009/2.98
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.98/2009_2.98.jpg
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"3 Stooges; Robert Beckley." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.98/2009_2.98.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.