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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Copyright Estate of Robert Arneson
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Nasal Flat
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Copyright Estate of Robert Arneson /Licensed by Artists Right Society (ARS), New York, NY
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Nasal Flat

Artist/Maker (United States, 1930-1992)
Date1981
Mediumpottery and glaze
DimensionsOverall: 87 3/8 × 36 × 20 in. (221.9 × 91.4 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Shein
Terms
    Object number2007.46.1A-B
    On View
    On view
    Visual Description

    A seven-foot-tall pottery and glaze sculpture depicting a bearded head atop a simple black pedestal. The head is that of an older man with medium-light skin tone, pock marks on his cheeks, and deep wrinkles on his high forehead and at the corners of his eyes. His beard and mustache are gray, as is the wavy hair at the sides of his balding head. The awkward sneer, or grimace, on his lips, and the utterly smooth, flat tip of his squished, bulbous nose, evoke a face pressed against a window or pane of glass.

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