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Lawrence Weiner is an internationally acclaimed artist known for conceptual-based work incorporating language. His artwork investigates the relationship between the art object, or the art action, and society. This diptych follows suit with a composition of diverse visual items, including wood grain, images, and text.

Source: News, October November December, 2002.


DimensionsSheet (a): 15 3/4 × 16 in. (40 × 40.6 cm)
Image (a): 11 7/8 × 13 in. (30.2 × 33 cm)
Sheet (b): 15 3/4 × 16 in. (40 × 40.6 cm)
Image (b): 12 3/8 × 12 1/2 in. (31.4 × 31.8 cm)
Accession Number 2002.14.a-.b
Classificationswork on paper
SignedLawrence Weiner (l/r in pencil, both sheets)
InscriptionsKNOW (92) AP 10/10 (l,r in pencil, sheet a) KNOW NOT (92) AP 10/10 (l,r in pencil, sheet a)
EditionAP 10/10
ProvenanceArtist. Lisa Kenney and David Teplitzky; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2002]
1/2 Way to Heaven - Know and Know Not
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Vous; mon ami! comment vous savez que je suis veuf; après vingt ans de travaux for..... non de ménage: vous voyez que je commence à me refaire et vous me proposez un second mariage..... Ragoulot, voulez-vous me lâcher! (You: my friend! How do you know that I am a widower; after twenty years of work for..... no household; You see I am beginning to rebuild and you offer me a second marriage.....Ragoulot, would you let me go!), no. 10 from the series of ten lithographs, “Vulgarités” ("Vulgarities" 10), 1842
Honoré Daumier
1842
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The 1920's....The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, from "Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence"
Jacob Lawrence
1974, published 1975
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Cottage in the Woods
Edith Lawrence
ca. 1930
Image Not Available for Demonstration 2
Demonstration 2
Robert Michel
1920
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
No. 6
William T. Wiley
1962
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bitva s ekvatorom (Wrestling with the Equator), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Germaniya vo prakhe (Germany Lying in the Dust), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Germaniya v zadore (Germany Arrogant), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Vzryv sunduka (Explosion in a Trunk), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Tyazheloe orudie (Heavy Gun), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bitva Indii s Evropoi (The Battle between India and Europe), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Razrushenie sadov (Destruction of Gardens), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916