The Old Professor...
Artist
Jim Dine
American, born 1935
Artist
Ron Padgett
Mediumcolor lithograph
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Kenward Elmslie
Object number2023.1.32.7
DescriptionMosty orange background fades into white toward the top of the print with orange brushstrokes becoming visible and then disappearing entirely. A startled looking bee floats in the white space. In simple black lettering over the orange it says, "The old professor tapped his finger against his forhead. 'I want you to consider the proposition that there is supernatural activity going on in the intellectual space between any two words. Example: two words. It is as though... as if each word, with its richness of connotation and suggestion, multiplied by our unconscious notions (true and false alike), were two sides of a chasm within which the echoes and richoets approach and then surpass infinity...'"On View
Not on view
1917
1917
[not after 1918].
