old paper with holes and creases at center (probably from a book) with some small scraps of printing in various fonts and languages; several hand-written elements in pencil and ink at lower corners and ULC; purplish-grey rectangle in LRC with fragments of colored marbled endpapers--predominately red and blue, and green and blue; small thin orange strip of paper to left of old paper background, ULC

%C2%A9 Estate William Dole

Work Sheet I, 1964

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Trained as a realist painter, William Dole taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He first experimented with collage during a sabbatical in Florence, Italy, where he acquired a leather-bound journal full of book pages, letters, maps, and more. His early collages referenced the Italian landscape, but after his return to the United States around 1958 his compositions became increasingly abstract. By cutting out bits of typography, details from scientific diagrams and areas of printed color, from discarded magazines, Dole created a stock of "raw material." These he used to assemble his lyrically delicate compositions.

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Title
Work Sheet I
Artist Life
1917 - 1983
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2012.58.109
Provenance
(Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, until c. 1964/65; sold to Moir); Alfred Moir, Santa Barbara, Calif. (1964/65-d. 2010); bequeathed to MIA, 2012.
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old paper with holes and creases at center (probably from a book) with some small scraps of printing in various fonts and languages; several hand-written elements in pencil and ink at lower corners and ULC; purplish-grey rectangle in LRC with fragments of colored marbled endpapers--predominately red and blue, and green and blue; small thin orange strip of paper to left of old paper background, ULC

© Estate William Dole

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