red pigments with black shading; large bomb in center; text at top of image that reads "9000 lbs. "LITTLE BOY"= 12,500 tons of T.N.T...."; heart etched in bottom left of body of bomb, with the inscription reading "FERMI OPPENHEIMER TELLER" inside of the heart; blue print of bomb at bottom center of image; grid with tiny black dots in LLC: white, small airplane in ULC

The Hiroshima Bomb, 1984

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Details
Title
The Hiroshima Bomb
Artist Life
1930 - 1992
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2020.96.54
Provenance
The artist, Benicia, Calif.; Estate of Robert Arneson; [George Adams Gallery, New York, sold to Mersky, July 2020]; Robert B. Mersky, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2020.
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red pigments with black shading; large bomb in center; text at top of image that reads "9000 lbs. "LITTLE BOY"= 12,500 tons of T.N.T...."; heart etched in bottom left of body of bomb, with the inscription reading "FERMI OPPENHEIMER TELLER" inside of the heart; blue print of bomb at bottom center of image; grid with tiny black dots in LLC: white, small airplane in ULC
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