"When men can freely communicate their thoughts and their sufferings, teal or imaginary, their passions spend themselves in air, like gunpowder scattered upon the surface; but pent up by terrors, they work unseen, burst forth in a moment, and destroy..." (sculpture)
Crayon, nail, photomechanical reproduction on wood
Type:
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & G Streets, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1984.124.242
Date:
1954
Notes:
National Museum of American Art, 1990.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.
(Lower left in ink:) PAUL RAND signed
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