233. Dogs
Title: Dogs (working title)
Date: 1973
Subject: Dogs outdoors
Measurements: 7 ½” W x 8 1/16” H
Materials and Techniques: White paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, glass covering, masking tape frame
Description: Pasted images of two trees (left: A Big Tree, 1891, Paul Gauguin, French, Paris 1848-1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, Art Institute of Chicago, right: unidentified) flank two large dogs (A Couple of Foxhounds, 1792, George Stubbs, British, Liverpool 1724-1806 London, Tate) and one small black dog (The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, Jan van Eyck, Netherlandish, Maaseik ca. 1390-1441 Bruges, The National Gallery).
Signed: “Norman S. Green 73” written in pen on front lower right corner
Note: From the Pictorial Puzzler Series. Label on reverse identifies piece as #10. Also identifies dogs. Trees identified upon further research.