Artwork Details
- Title
- The Principal Wife Goes On
- Artist
- Date
- 1969
- Location
- Dimensions
- part A: 185 1⁄4 x 19 x 4 in. (470.5 x 48.2 x 10.1 cm) part B: 187 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 x 3 1⁄8 in. (475.6 x 23.5 x 8 cm) part C: 186 x 11 1⁄8 x 3 5⁄8 in. (472.5 x 28.3 x 9.3 cm) part D: 184 7⁄8 x 9 7⁄8 x 3 7⁄8 in. (469.6 x 25 x 10 cm) part E: 185 5⁄8 x 10 x 3 5⁄8 in. (471.4 x 25.4 x 9.3 cm) part F: 189 5⁄8 x 10 1⁄8 x 4 1⁄4 in. (481.7 x 25.7 x 10.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- linen, silk, wool and synthetic fibers
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Abstract
- Object Number
- 1977.118.2A-F
Verbal Description
Fibrous cords drape over a twenty-inch-wide rod to create the suggestion of a waterfall, which cascades fifteen feet down and pools on the floor. The other side hangs three quarters of the way down. Stone-gray threads bunch together to create the cords or skeins, which vary in thickness and texture. They seem coarse, almost like horsehair. In some spots the cords are slick and taut, and in others they are loose and billowing. Sections of brightly colored and tightly wound thread bind together each cord at irregular intervals. These vary in length and range in color, from firetruck and wine red to bright lemon yellow, burnt orange, loud magenta, pearl white, bright gold, and flowery pink. The ends of the cords have been left unbound; they spread out in fanlike sprays of thread.
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