Title: Palette Face (working title)
Date: None
Subject: Face
Measurements: 16” W x 1/8” D x 12 1/8” H
Materials and Techniques:  Wooden artist’s palette, black marker
Description: An old wooden artist’s palette represents the profile of a person’s face. The curve of the top right-hand region of the palette represents his forehead. The lower right corner of the palette represents his nose and chin. The palette’s finger hole represents his eye. Two wide arches are drawn onto the palette with black marker, one representing an eyebrow and the other, drawn upside-down, representing his smiling mouth.
Signed: None

Title: Sprinters (working title)
Date: None
Subject: Abstract image of athletes racing
Measurements: 17 ¾ W x 13 ¾” D x 8 ¼” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden board, white paint, eight women’s shoe horns: 1 natural wood, 3 painted silver, 1 painted white, and 3 with green paint remnants
Description: A rectangular wooden board with one rounded side represents the racetrack. Seven white lines are painted across the narrower side of the board to represent the different racing lanes allocated to the racers. The racers are lined-up side-by-side along the side of the board that is across from the rounded side. These racers, represented by women’s shoehorns, appear as though they are running because their heads, the balls on the backs of the shoehorns, bobble forward and back. The curved metal, which allows them to bobble, is attached to the front of the shoehorn that represents their bodies.
Date Cataloged: September 19, 2008
Required Repairs: None
Signed: “NSG” written in permanent marker (pre-existing signature “A. Papish”)
Location: Farmhouse, 748 Tiplady Rd. Hebron, NY
Status: Seen

Title: Moby Dick (according to Bill), Where’s Jonah? (According to Presentation Portfolio II entitled: NORMAN SUMNER GREEN)
Date: 1981, according to Presentation Portfolio II entitled: NORMAN SUMNER GREEN
Subject: Whale
Measurements: 12 ½” W x 4 ¾” D x 2 ½” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden spoon, white plastic, wooden form painted blue, black marker
Description: A large wooden spoon rests face down on a blue-painted rectangular wooden base that has one side that projects outward in a rounded shape. The rounded side of the spoon, which echoes the rounded edge of the base, rests above it in perfect alignment. The rounded side of the spoon represents the whale’s head. Two pieces of white plastic that are cut into a floral shape and outlined in black marker represent the whale’s eyes, which are located on each side of the upside-down spoon. In addition, the same white plastic is used to represent the whale’s teeth which are exposed in a wide grin outlined in black marker. The curled end of the spoon’s handle represents the whale’s tail.
Date Cataloged: September 19, 2008
Required Repairs: None
Signed: None
Location: Farmhouse, 748 Tiplady Rd. Hebron, NY
Status: Seen

Title: Man in Drawers (working title)
Date: None
Subject: Abstract man standing
Measurements: 9 15/16” W x ¾” D x 22 ½” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden drawer panels, wooden shapes
Description: Two wooden panels that once served as the fronts of drawers represent a man’s body. The horizontal panel represents the man’s head, while the vertical panel represents the man’s torso. Two pieces of triangular, curved wooden shapes are attached to the bottom of the vertical panel, representing his legs and feet.
Date Cataloged: September 9, 2008
Required Repairs: According to an early photograph, a wooden fork with shortened prongs was attached to the body of this piece, representing an arm. Uncertain whether this piece as it appears today without the arm is purposeful, or whether it should not be considered an incomplete piece.
Signed: None
Location: Farmhouse, 748 Tiplady Rd. Hebron, NY
Status: Seen

Title: Husky Man (working title)
Date: None
Subject: Man standing
Measurements: 18 ¼” W x 2 ¾” D x 31 ¾” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden forms, wood painted black
Description: Attached to a black-painted vertical, rectangular wood panel are seven wooden forms assembled to create the image of a man’s body. His head is made from a piece of wood that has a curved top, which probably came from the top of a wooden chair. The recessed area of the curved shape is painted black. Two wooden pegs emerge from his face to represent eyes. The man’s torso is made from a black-painted piece of wood that was probably originally the seat of a wooden chair. Two matching wooden shapes represent arms while two other matching wooden shapes represent legs. A piece of wood is placed between his legs and projects slightly from the panel towards the viewer, representing a phallus.
Date Cataloged: August 28, 2008
Required Repairs: None
Signed: None
Location: Farmhouse
Status: Seen

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Title:  Blah, Blah, Blah
Date: None
Subject: Three talking heads
Measurements: 15 3/8”W x 3 3/8”D x 13 ¾”H
Materials and Techniques: Wood panel, paper, paint
Description:  Three stylized heads are mounted one adjacent to the other in ascending order with a paper cutout of the word “Blah” placed in each of their mouths.
Signed: None