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The Great Speckled Bird

2013

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg

(American, 1944-)
publisher

Gemini G. E. L. at Joni Moisant Weyl

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Culture
United States
Medium
color screenprint on perforated player-piano roll
Measurements
Sheet: 28.6 x 184.2 cm (11 1/4 x 72 1/2 in.); Framed: 38.6 x 187.1 cm (15 3/16 x 73 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Stephen Dull 2018.53.b
Edition
Edition 8/12
Copyright
© Allen Ruppersberg, Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

This work by Allen Ruppersberg is an evocative visualization of American folk music. It takes its title from the Southern hymn “The Great Speckled Bird,” and it is printed on a player piano roll for that song. Across the image, Ruppersberg hand-wrote the lyrics to different hymns on American motel stationary that he collected over a period of several decades.

The Great Speckled Bird

2013

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg, Gemini G. E. L. at Joni Moisant Weyl

(American, 1944-)
United States

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