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"Personal statement by the artist: I bite my fingernails."
"Personal statement by the artist: I bite my fingernails."

"Personal statement by the artist: I bite my fingernails."

Artist Richard C. American, born 1941
Date1972
MediumFelt tip pen on paper
Dimensions9 x 9 in. (22.9 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Jessie N. Howell Memorial Fund
Object number84.8.7
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated North Carolina, 1984; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 1984.
Published ReferencesA Richard C. Chrestomathy: Fine, Medium, and Coarse Art or, Decorative Doodads of Cosmic Significance (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987), illus. (b-w) 12.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper by North Carolina Artists," January 29-April 14, 1985. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "'A Richard C. Chrestomathy: Fine, Medium, and Coarse Art or, Decorative Doodads of Cosmic Significance,'" April 18-July 5, 1987, cat. illus. (b-w) 12. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "Recent Acquisitions: Works of Art on Paper by North Carolina Artists," August 22-November 12, 1989.
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