Three Ways for Gas

Torkwase Dyson

2006

  • Titles Three Ways for Gas (Proper)
  • Artist Torkwase Dyson, American, born 1973
  • Medium mixed media on paper
  • Dimensions 19 1/2 × 25 1/4 in. (49.5 × 64.1 cm) frame: 24 × 29 3/8 × 2 in. (61 × 74.6 × 5.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Jack and Rebecca Drake Collection, AFI.12.2021
  • Work Type collage
  • Classification Collage

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