Steam

Robert Morris, Artist Aris Koutroulis, Printer Friends of Modern Art Acquisition Fund, Publisher
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Steam

1969

Robert Morris (Artist) American, 1931 - 2018 Aris Koutroulis (Printer) American, 1938-2013 (Publisher) Friends of Modern Art Acquisition Fund

Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper

Image: 20 × 27 7/8 inches (50.8 × 70.8 cm) Sheet: 22 1/4 × 30 inches (56.5 × 76.2 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

70.829.7

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Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: R Morris | 69

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 1/125 Inscribed, above the printer's drystamp, verso: 1#[check mark]

Watermark, printer's drystamp, lower center: BFK RIVES

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1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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The Museum of Modern Art. American Prints 1960-1985. New York, 1986, p. 270.

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Robert Morris, Steam, 1969, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 70.829.7.

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