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Thomas Downing

Red Plum

1963

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Thomas Downing

Red Plum

1963

Physical Qualities Acrylic on canvas, 107 3/4 x 107 3/4 in. (273.7 x 273.7 cm.) in proper diamond-orientation
Credit Line Gift of Michael Shapiro, Beverly Hills, California
Object Number 1980.448
To be hung on the diagonal, with dark red dot at top.

Inscribed: Verso: ? edge, tacking margin, "Downing" and on adjacent canvas, "ROLL #10"; at top left, tacking margin, "[arrow] TOP"; at top right, tacking margin, "[arrow] TOP"; at upper right, label, "Red Plum"

Artist

Thomas Downing

1927–1984

born Suffolk, VA 1928; died Provincetown, MA 1985
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