Title: On Your Toes
Date: 1985, according to Presentation Portfolio II entitled: NORMAN  SUMNER GREEN
Subject: Lovers
Measurements: 12” W x ¼” D x 24 ½” H
Materials and Techniques: Lucite, wooden hangers, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, cutout from a photograph
Description: Attached vertically to a rectangular piece of lucite are two wooden hangers facing the same direction. The hanger on the left represents a woman. A cutout of a woman’s face is attached to the top of the hanger, a cutout of breasts is attached below this, and a cutout of a vagina is attached below that. A cutout of toes is attached to the bottom of the hanger. The hanger on the right represents a man. A cutout of a man’s face is attached to the top of the hanger, a cutout of a well-muscled arm is attached below this, and a cutout from a photograph of a phallus is attached below that. A cutout of toes is attached to the bottom of the hanger. The man’s arm extends around the woman’s waist, embracing her from behind.
Signed: “NSG” etched on lower-right edge

Title: Board Man (working title)
Date: None
Subject: Man resting
Measurements: 15” W x 1 ½” D x 18 1/16” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden board, wooden hangers, wooden forms
Description: The form of a reclined man is attached to a thin, wooden board. The man’s head and neck are represented with the bowl and neck of a wooden spoon. His facial features are made from small, wooden forms. Two wooden pegs represent his eyes, a cylindrical wooden form with a light red stain is inserted diagonally into his face to represent his nose, and a half doughnut-shape with a light red stain represents his smile. His torso is made from an egg shaped cutout of wood with remnants of a light blue stain. His limbs are made from wooden hangers. One side of a hanger forms each leg, and the tip of each hanger forms a foot. His arms are made from similar parts of smaller wooden hangers. His right arm extends parallel to his head, while the hanger representing his left arm is broken in half, representing a bent arm that is allowing his hand to rest behind his head.
Signed: None

Title: Hanger-on
Date: 1990
Subject: A man and woman embracing
Measurements: 11” W x ¾” D x 21 ½” H
Materials and Techniques: Two wooden hangers, two cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, wooden form
Description: Using a vertical, rectangular piece of wood as its base, this decorative wall piece depicts an intimate embrace between a man and woman. The man’s head is represented using a cutout of a man’s face from a work of art. The arms of a vertically oriented placed wooden hanger form his body. The woman’s head is similarly represented using a cutout of a woman’s face from a work of art. Her body is also made from the arms of wooden hangers. One hanger arm represents her neck and torso, while two other arms represent her legs, which appear to wrap around the man’s waist. The man and woman appear face to face, as though they are about to kiss.
Signed: “NSG 90” etched into bottom right-hand corner of base
Note: Exhibited as #54 “Hanger-on” at Duncan Campbell’s gallery in 1994. Cost: 850 British pounds.

Title: Pregnant Woman Doing Lamaze (working title)
Date: None
Subject: A woman stands with her arms raised
Measurements: 15 ½” W x ¾” D x 28 ¼” H
Materials and Techniques: Wooden forms, wooden clothing hangers, sheet of silver metal
Description: Attached to a thin, dark, vertical, rectangular, wood panel is the image of a woman standing with her arms raised. Her head is made from a round wooden form and her torso is a pear-shaped wooden form. Her limbs are made from two wooden clothing hangers. Each hanger was broken in half and the two halves of each hanger are used to connote a set of limbs. A piece of thin, silver metal in an upside-down heart shape is attached to the woman’s torso, representing her breasts. Two indentations are engraved into the metal piece, representing nipples. A circular region of the lower area of her torso, outlined in pen, appears faded and discolored. Originally, a round form, perhaps with the image of a baby, may have been attached to this region of her torso, representing a fetus in her womb.
Date Cataloged: September 9, 2008
Required Repairs: Round form representing her pregnant belly may be missing.
Signed: None
Location: Farmhouse, 748 Tiplady Rd. Hebron, NY
Status: Seen

Title: Chorus Line
Date: None
Subject: A line of standing women
Measurements: 27 7/8”W x ¾”D x 18”H
Materials and Techniques: Wood hangers, cutouts from postcards, laminate countertop on wooden base
Description: Images of the faces of nine women are cut out from postcards of famous paintings. The profiles of their curved, standing bodies are represented using nine vertical wooden hangers. The nine women are lined-up, one behind the next in a formation set against a rectangular, horizontal, white laminate panel attached to a wooden surface.
Signed: “NSG”
Note: Exhibited as #13 “Chorus Line” at Duncan Campbell’s gallery in 1996. Cost: 450 British pounds.