- Titles Working Drawings for Various Paintings (#496) (Proper)
- Artist David Reed, American, born 1946
- Medium graphite and ink on paper
- Dimensions sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, THE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008.74.16, image © David Reed
- Work Type drawing
- Classification Drawings
- Signature Recto, bottom left: DAVID REED
- Inscription Recto center left: PALE BLUE / KNIFE MARKS / ON MAGENTA Recto center right [alone bottom rectangle] 41 over Recto center [below bottom rectangle]: NO—NEITHER GOOD / YES [enc. and in pencil]—FLIP+CUT THROUGH CENTER. / DONE. Recto center right [below bottom rectangle]: cut + divide Recto center far right: 2 Hues / yes / in 2 yellows / or / same / magenta Recto bottom right: 7 ¾’’ DOWN / 16 ¼’’ / DOWN Recto bottom center: could /do cut out / bottom [crossed out] / left. Recto bottom: or CHANGES / MOVING / ACROSS Verso top center: PLANS FOR FIRST CUT OUTS / PALE BLUE OVER MAGENTA / SIZE OF PAINTING FOR SCOTTIE’S BEDROOM / 2002 / WORKING DRAWING FOR #496 Verso top right/center: PTG. #496
- Provenance Dorothy and Herbert Vogel; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art