Purity Box from the series “Metaphor Boxes and Drawings”

Beverly Erdreich

2007

  • Titles Purity Box from the series "Metaphor Boxes and Drawings" (Proper)
  • Artist Beverly Erdreich, American, born 1939
  • Medium mixed media
  • Dimensions 1 1/2 x 9 x 9 in. (3.8 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Anonymous gift in honor of the Special Anniversary of Beverly and Stanley Erdreich, Jr., AFI.30.2011
  • Work Type sculpture
  • Classification Sculpture

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