The artist
1988, tranfer to DIA as long term loan 12/1/1988
2000, purchased by DIA on 4/19/2000.
Steel, wax, marble dust and acrylic on wood base
Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from Joan and Armando Ortiz Foundation and Friends of Modern Art
2000.43
Contemporary Art after 1950
The artist
1988, tranfer to DIA as long term loan 12/1/1988
2000, purchased by DIA on 4/19/2000.
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Nancy Graves, Variability of Similar Forms, 1970, steel, wax, marble dust and acrylic on wood base. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from Joan and Armando Ortiz Foundation and Friends of Modern Art, 2000.43.