Untitled, ca. 1972

  • Gordon Newton, American, 1948 - 2019

Blue ballpoint pen on cream wove paper

  • Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

Gift of James Pearson Duffy

1999.1109

Inscribed, [many notes and numbers across the sheet] in ballpoint, [including references to plywood and one longer note], upper left: The night was | so dark on | cal[?]ot[?] Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: 470

James Pearson Duffy (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Gordon Newton, Untitled, ca. 1972, blue ballpoint pen on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James Pearson Duffy, 1999.1109.