Documentation, On the Mathematics of Geometry in My Abstract Paintings
date: label: date made
content: 1972
name: label: maker
content: Johnson, Crockett
notes: label: Description
content: Between 1968 and 1975, the artist and author Crockett Johnson (1906-1975) sent a variety of mathematical inquiries to his Connecticut acquaintance Milton (Mickey) Rosenau. He also sent this reprint of a paper he published in the journal <I>Leonardo</I> in 1972 (vol. 5, pp. 97-101).
label: Description
content: For related transactions, see the collection of Crockett Johnson's mathematical paintings (1979.1093), related nonaccessioned correspondence and drawings of CJ (transaction 1979.3083), and correspondence received from Harley Flanders (2009.3005).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Crockett Johnson
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Milton D. Rosenau, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3120.02
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content: 2012.3120
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content: 2012.3120.02
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content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 21.4 cm x 28.7 cm; 1/8 in x 8 7/16 in x 11 5/16 in