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Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle

Artist Anthony Goicolea American, born 1971
Date2004
MediumGraphite, ink, and acrylic on mylar and Plexiglas
DimensionsImage: 23 1/2 × 77 3/4 in. (59.7 × 197.5 cm)
Frame: 30 9/16 × 85 1/8 × 2 in. (77.6 × 216.2 × 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Allen G. Thomas Jr.
Object number2019.1.2
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated New York, 2004; collection of the artist; [Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles]; Allen G. Thomas Jr., Wilson, NC; given to NCMA, 2019.
Published ReferencesAlter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea (Raleigh and Savannah: North Carolina Museum of Art and Telfair Museums, 2011) (exhibition catalogue), illus. (color) 13, 54–55.

Anthony Goicolea: Drawings (Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2007), illus. (color) 46–47.
Exhibition HistoryColumbus, GA, The Columbus Museum, “New Directions in American Drawing,” February 25–June 10, 2007; Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art, June 27–September 16, 2007; Knoxville, TN, Knoxville Museum of Art, October 26, 2007–January 20, 2008.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea,” April 17–July 24, 2011; Savannah, GA, Telfair Museums: Jepson Center, September 2, 2011–January 8, 2012; Louisville, KY, 21c Museum Hotel, January 27–July 25, 2012, illus. (color) 13, 54–55.

Boone, NC, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, “Men Working: The Contemporary Collection of Allen Thomas,” July 5, 2013–February 8, 2014.
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