- Titles Sponge, Meatball, and Bubble (Proper)
- Artist Beatrice Riese, American, born Netherlands, 1917 - 2004
- Medium gouache and pencil on paper
- Dimensions sheet: 34 × 25 9/16 in. (86.4 × 65 cm) image: 30 1/8 × 23 1/8 in. (76.5 × 58.7 cm) mat: 40 × 29 15/16 in. (101.6 × 76.1 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Elizabeth and Jeff Russell, 1992.35
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Signed in pencil, recto, lower right: beatrice riese 1986
- Inscription Inscribed in pencil, recto, lower left: sponge, meatball, and bubble Verso: none
- Provenance Jeff and Elizabeth Russell, New York, NY; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, 1992