Whelk Pod

Elise Kaufman

1991

  • Titles Whelk Pod (Proper)
  • Artist Elise Kaufman, American, born 1961
  • Medium sumi ink on paper
  • Dimensions 5 × 13 1/4 in. (12.7 × 33.7 cm) mat: 7 1/16 × 15 3/8 in. (18 × 39 cm) frame: 8 × 16 in. (20.3 × 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky, AFI.16.2006
  • Work Type painting
  • Classification Paintings

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