Jim Dine
Flo-Master Hearts
1968
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Jim Dine
Flo-Master Hearts
1968
Physical Qualities
Colored inks over black crayon and graphite with spray varnish, Sheet: 340 × 312 mm. (13 3/8 × 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number
1970.21.5
The title of this work is derived from the Flo-Master inks that Dine used to create these four hearts floating in space. (Appreciated for their intense colors and durability, Flo-Master inks are no longer manufactured because they contained lead.) Dine has depicted hearts throughout his career-they can be read as a fundamental statement about love or a container for all emotions.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1970; Mr. Edward Benesch, NY; Sonnabend Gallery, NY(?)
Victor Carlson (organized and circulated by the BMA), "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art." E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, November 3 - December 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, January 18 - February 17, 1974; The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2 - April 21, 1974, cat. 14.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
BMA, "Selected Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Collection," 3 September - 1 December 1985.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "Drawings of the 1960s from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 17 November 1993 - 30 January 1994.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
Ann Shafer, BMA, "Front Room: Jim Dine," 11 June - 5 October 2008, illus in unpaginated brochure.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
BMA, "Selected Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Collection," 3 September - 1 December 1985.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "Drawings of the 1960s from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 17 November 1993 - 30 January 1994.
BMA, "Major Modern Drawings from the Collection," 8 October - 18 December 1994.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
Ann Shafer, BMA, "Front Room: Jim Dine," 11 June - 5 October 2008, illus in unpaginated brochure.
"The Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection," BMA, 1970, unpaginated.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 183, ill.
Shafer, Ann. Jim Dine. Front Room. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2008, unpaged.
Inscribed: lower right in crayon: "Jim Dine 1969"
