Flaming Mallard Confrontation

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Flaming Mallard Confrontation

1980

Maurie Kerrigan (American, born 1951)

Maurie Kerrigan is a Philadelphia artist whose work combines poetically inventive, funky subject matter with meticulous yet fanciful craftsmanship in carved and painted wood, fresco, clay, and paper. In her works she explores the ritual, the magic, and the mythology of man's past as it overlaps the contemporary human condition.

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Object Details

Title:

Flaming Mallard Confrontation

Date:

1980

Artist:

Maurie Kerrigan (American, born 1951)

Medium:

Cray-Pas oil pastel diluted with turpentine, Cray-Pas, house paint, and graphite on gray wove paper; artist-made frame

Dimensions:

Sheet: 19 11/16 x 25 1/2 inches (50 x 64.8 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund created by Benjamin D. Bernstein, 1981

Accession Number:

1981-16-1

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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