Representing Projects

20th century

Michael Heizer American, born 1944

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About the Artwork

Title Representing Projects

Artwork Date 20th century

Artist Michael Heizer

Life Dates born 1944

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Graphite pencil and pen and black ink on four separate sheets of cream wove paper fully attached to a larger sheet of supporting white wove paper with three typewritten captions also fully affixed to the supporting sheet beneath the top two drawings

Dimensions Sheet (all four): 8 1/2 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm) Overall: 21 1/2 × 30 inches (54.6 × 76.2 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Sam Wagstaff

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F82.203

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower center, verso: reproduce/acetate | same size print | put on largest sheet possible Inscribed, various inscriptions and measurements that are part of the drawings are in pen and black ink on all four of the drawings. Inscribed, left center, first caption: 4 consecutive depictions | levitated mass (ost.) w/pier either cement | cast block w/ structural ribbing skiin surface, undercut and dropped | earth volumeXX underneath. Alt. granite mass placed on cement pier. Inscribed, second caption, center: App. meas. 1/ 12 x 25' x 3 1/2' mass, 9' pier: 2/ 25'x40'x6'mass 11' pier. Inscribed, third caption, center right: All casting cuts w/backhoe, inc. buttresses pier sides/ 5 butt. | w/ 1" rebar susp. in center of 12" x 12". Surface skin 6-8" depth, | ties into butt. rebar at sides. Sides, thin scoop width. Inscribed, sheet in lower left corner, in black pen and ink: 1 x 1 (x20) parameter | pier to 11 depth mass Inscribed, sheet in lower right corner, in pencil: mass Inscribed, sheet in lower right corner, in pen and black ink: pier to 11' depth | pier to surface/11'

Provenance

Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr. [1921-1987]

1982-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Michael Heizer, Representing Projects, 20th century, graphite pencil and pen and black ink on four separate sheets of cream wove paper fully attached to a larger sheet of supporting white wove paper with three typewritten captions also fully affixed to the supporting sheet beneath the top two drawings. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Sam Wagstaff, F82.203.