A Door Must Be Either Open or Closed
2002
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint printed in black ink with aquatint printed in yellow ink on Somerset paper
Dimensions
plate: 20.5 x 13.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 43.3 x 29 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2006.122.50
About the Artist
Tom Marioni
Tom Marioni (born 1937) is an American conceptual and performance artist based in San Francisco who has been a pivotal figure in West Coast conceptual art since the late 1960s. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy before moving to San Francisco, where he became deeply involved in the city's experimental art scene. In 1970, Marioni founded the Museum of Conceptual Art...