Happy Birthday Dorothy
Date1985
Artist
Richard Francisco
(American painter, born 1942)
MediumPainted balsa wood
Dimensions12 7/8 × 9 3/4 × 2 in. (32.7 × 24.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-32
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextRichard Francisco considers his small, painted constructions, such as Happy Birthday Dorothy, as paintings. He maintains an awareness of this three dimensional nature when explaining he "would rather build a drawing than draw a building."
Thomas Willoughby Nason
1926
