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Maker(s):Saar, Betye
Culture:American (1926 - )
Title:Edge of Forever
Date Made:1984
Type:Sculpture
Materials:assemblage with wood, paint, paper, plastic buttons
Measurements:overall: 9 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 23.5 cm x 26 cm x 18.4 cm
Narrative Inscription:  sticker affixed to bottom: The EDGE of FOREVER / B. SAAR 1984
Accession Number:  SC 2017.39.1
Credit Line:Gift of Molly Gayley Gnichtel, class of 1958
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art

Description:
assemblage with dark blue anthropomorphic figure with large concave eyes standing in center against a background with different botanic and floral elements rendered in polychrome relief; on reverse side, photographic print of a mask-like shape flanked by two buttons with Shriners symboloy; on the bottom center a frame holds loose jade-like shavings

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