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The beetle leg
The beetle leg
The beetle leg

The beetle leg

Artist Polly Apfelbaum (American, born 1955)
Date1988
MediumCast iron and copper plated horseshoes
DimensionsOverall: 95.4 × 56 × 48.5 cm (37 9/16 × 22 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Leonard Rosenberg and Colombe Nicholas
Object number2016.009.001
Collections
Exhibition History- Looking Back at the 1980s: Gifts to the Collection, 09/03/2016-07/30/2017, Zimmerli Art Museum, Machaver Gallery - Absence and Trace: The Dematerialized Image in Contemporary Art, 09/05/2017-01/07/2018, Zimmerli Art Museum, Machaver Gallery
Exhibitions

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Image Not Available for Position Beetle
Position Beetle
Maris Abilevs
1983
Beetles and Leaders
Beetles and Leaders
Anatoly Brusilovsky
1974
Seated Man with Crossed Legs
Seated Man with Crossed Legs
Leonard Baskin
1965
Image Not Available for Long Yellow Legs
Long Yellow Legs
Frank Weston Benson
undated
Image Not Available for The Leg from the series Charnel House
The Leg from the series Charnel House
Hyman Bloom
c. 1950
Image Not Available for Seated Nude with Legs Turned
Seated Nude with Legs Turned
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
c. 1941
Image Not Available for (Sketches of Reclining Male Nude, Seated Nude, Legs, and Face)
(Sketches of Reclining Male Nude, Seated Nude, Legs, and Face)
Maurice Sterne
undated
Illustration design for The Web in the Grass: "Her legs were long and slender...she began to make a web."
Illustration design for The Web in the Grass: "Her legs were long and slender...she began to make a web."
Roger Duvoisin
1972
(Bowl with three legs)
(Bowl with three legs)
Unidentified artist
undated
MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pre MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pejorative term designing the being of both sexes whose main characteristics are a) standing upright on his hind legs, b) an adjustable thumb c) a relatively large brain capacity. For inst., in the expressions: I am a man, you are a man, he (she) is a man, we are men, you are men, they are men, "man" is always used pejoratively. Warning: men are not monsters, however, and an easy test allows to distinguish between them. Simply remember: MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE.
MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pre
MAN, (man), n.; pl. Men (men) (AS. mann, man, monn, mon) Pejorative term designing the being of both sexes whose main characteristics are a) standing upright on his hind legs, b) an adjustable thumb c) a relatively large brain capacity. For inst., in the expressions: I am a man, you are a man, he (she) is a man, we are men, you are men, they are men, "man" is always used pejoratively. Warning: men are not monsters, however, and an easy test allows to distinguish between them. Simply remember: MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE.
Daniel Spoerri
1967
Image Not Available for (Seated Woman Legs Crossed)
(Seated Woman Legs Crossed)
Charles Maurin
undated
(Leg)
(Leg)
Lena Lesnitchaya
1982