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Explore image in Maker: Robert Arneson, American, 1930–1992
Last Gasp
1980
Glazed stoneware
Overall: 52 × 17 × 19 1/2 in. (132.08 × 43.18 × 49.53 cm)
base: 34 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (87.63 × 24.13 × 24.13 cm)
Head: 17 1/2 × 17 × 19 1/2 in. (44.45 × 43.18 × 49.53 cm)
base: 34 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (87.63 × 24.13 × 24.13 cm)
Head: 17 1/2 × 17 × 19 1/2 in. (44.45 × 43.18 × 49.53 cm)
Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935, Collection
2008.19.836
Geography:
Made in Benicia, California
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
American
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Allan Frumkin Gallery, 5/6/81
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008): 177.
John Stuart Gordon, “Robert Arneson’s ‘Last Gasp’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008): 128, fig. 1.
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 333, pl. 318.
Jennifer Farrell et al., Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 151, 324–25, 326, fig. 3.
Sequoia Miller and John Stuart Gordon, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015–16), 97, fig. 82.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
