The Calligrapher Replies I

Artist Tom Phillips British, 1937–2022

Date1987

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions38 3/4 x 61 1/4 in. (98.4 x 155.6 cm)
Frame: 40 x 62 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (101.6 x 158.8 x 3.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from various donors, by exchange

Object number91.19

On View

Not on view

Published ReferencesLucy Shortis, "Eroding the Darkness: The Art of Tom Phillips," Letter Arts Review 14, no. 1 (1997), 12, 13, illus. (b-w) 6.

Huston Paschal, entry for The Calligrapher Replies, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 250, illus. (color), detail (color) 210.
Exhibition HistoryAngela Flowers Gallery, London (date?)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 22, 2008-May 17, 2009. Object Rights Statement

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