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Allen Rawson Ruppersberg. The Great Speckled Bird, 2013. color screenprint on perforated player-piano roll, Sheet: 28.6 x 116.8 cm (11 1/4 x 46 in.); Framed: 38.4 x 120 cm (15 1/8 x 47 1/4 in.). Gift of Stephen Dull, 2018.53.d. Copyrighted undefined.

The Great Speckled Bird

2013

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)

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The Great Speckled Bird, 2013. Allen Rawson Ruppersberg (American, 1944-), published by Gemini G. E. L. at Joni Moisant Weyl. Color screenprint on perforated player-piano roll; sheet: 28.6 x 116.8 cm (11 1/4 x 46 in.); framed: 38.4 x 120 cm (15 1/8 x 47 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Stephen Dull 2018.53.d © Allen Ruppersberg, Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York This work by Allen Ruppersberg is an evocative visualization of American folk music. It takes its title from the Southern hymn “The Great Speckled Bird,” and it is printed on a player piano roll for that song. Across the image, Ruppersberg hand-wrote the lyrics to different hymns on American motel stationary that he collected over a period of several decades.
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Print
Formatted Medium
color screenprint on perforated player-piano roll
Dimensions
Sheet: 28.6 x 116.8 cm (11 1/4 x 46 in.); Framed: 38.4 x 120 cm (15 1/8 x 47 1/4 in.)
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Prints
Accession Number
2018.53.d
Credit Line
Gift of Stephen Dull
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