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Girl

Artist Bob Trotman American, born 1947

Date2002

MediumPaint and tempera on white pine, poplar, and basswood, with small amount of wax

Dimensions65 x 49 x 41in. (165.1 x 124.5 x 104.1 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art

Object number2003.1

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Not on view

ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by NCMA 2003.Published ReferencesBob Trotman: Model Citizens (exhibition brochure) (Richmond, VA: Hand Workshop Art Center, 2002), illus. in progress (b-w).

Dinah Ryan, "Bob Trotman" (exhibition review) in Sculpture 21, no. 10, mentioned 79.

Curtia James, "Bob Trotman" (exhibition review) in Art Papers 27, no. 1, mentioned 41.

Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (January/ February 2003), illus. (color) 9.

Nell Joslin, "Illusions in carved wood," Raleigh: News and Observer (May 9, 2004), discussed 1G, 3G, illus. (color) 1G, illus. of work being installed (b-w) 3G.

Bob Trotman: Model Citizens (exhibition brochure) (Nashville, TN: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2007), no. 1, briefly discussed and illus. (color), unpaginated.

Linda J. Dougherty, entry for Girl, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 552, illus. (color) 553.

Linda Johnson Dougherty, et al, Bob Trotman: Inverted Utopias (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), illus. (color) 13, 75, detail (color) 12, 13.

David Menconi, “Focus on homegrown art: Museum spotlights artists from across the state,” Raleigh News & Observer (September 1, 2013), briefly discussed 1D, illus. (color) 3D.

Victoria Scott-Miller, The Museum Lives in Me (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2022), illus 21 (artist's illustration).Exhibition HistoryRichmond, VA, Hand Workshop Art Center, "Bob Trotman: Model Citizens," May 24-July 21, 2002, brochure.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

Nashville, TN, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, "Bob Trotman: Model Citizens," November 10, 2006-February 11, 2007, brochure, no. 1, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Bob Trotman: Inverted Utopias," November 7, 2010-March 27, 2011; Hickory, NC, Hickory Museum of Art, April 24-June 26, 2011.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Close to Home,” August 18, 2013–August 10, 2014.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary,” April 3, 2021–February 6, 2022.
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