Domesticated Beast

Willie Cole

2013

  • Titles Domesticated Beast (Title)
  • Artist Willie Cole, American, born 1955
  • Medium iron scorches on paper
  • Dimensions sheet: 24 × 35 7/8 in. (61 × 91.1 cm) frame: 27 3/4 × 39 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (70.5 × 101 × 3.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Jack and Rebecca Drake Collection, AFI.104.2016
  • Work Type drawing
  • Classification Works on Paper

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