Fairly Mean/Mean Fairly
Al Taylor
1995
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black ink and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 72.07 x 92.71 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
2011.8.1
About the Artist
Al Taylor
Al Taylor (1948–1999) was born in Springfield, Missouri, and received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1970, where he trained as a painter. That year, he relocated to New York City, embracing the vibrant art scene and taking a job as an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg, whose medium-blending experiments shaped Taylor's lifelong curiosity about the interplay between two and three di...