Magic Magic Book

Various artists/makers

1994

Not on view

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Title: Magic Magic Book
Author: Ricky Jay (American, born Brooklyn, NY 1946-2018 Los Angeles, CA)
Artist: Vija Celmins (American, born Riga, Latvia, 1938)
Artist: Jane Hammond (American, born Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1950)
Artist: Justin Ladda (German, born 1953)
Artist: Glenn Ligon (American, born New York, New York, 1960)
Artist: Philip Taaffe (American, born Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1955)
Artist: William Wegman (American, born 1943)
Printer: Grenfell Press (New York, NY)
Printer: Meriden-Steinhour Press (American, Lunenburg, Vermont)
Printer: Wild Carrot Letterpress (Hadley, Massachusetts)
Publisher: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Date: 1994
Medium: Artist's book
Dimensions: Case: 4.5 × 28 × 21.5 cm (1 3/4 in. × 11 in. × 8 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 10 in. × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Lin Lougheed Collection, Gift of Lin Lougheed, 2016
Object Number: 2016.587.21
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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