Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1944-2007
Title of Work
Steam: My View fro P.S.1 (a flip-book) (Set of 89)
Preview
Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_B
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Norman B. Colp was born in 1944 in New York, NY and passed away in 2007. He is best known for his photography skills, photographic artist's book, and a publicly installed poem titled The Commuter's Lament-A Close Shave commissioned by the NYC MTA. This poem is mounted in sections on the overhead beams at the 42nd St. station to the Times Square subway station.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series II
Postcard contains 16 photographs of smoke stacks spewing out steam on a blue sky.
UND Art Collections owns 89 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Norman B. Colp
Steam: My View fro P.S.1 (a flip-book)
Photographs
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good
Rights
Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”