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DimensionsFrame: 34 1/2 × 56 1/4 × 1 3/8 in. (87.6 × 142.9 × 3.5 cm)
Image (visual): 11 5/8 × 15 5/8 in. (29.5 × 39.7 cm)
Accession Number 1977.9.2
Classificationswork on paper
Inscriptionssigned and dated: Wm. T. Wiley 1971 (l/r) Numbered: 2 (u/l) Text: The hide itself came from a flea market sale at Tarri General Store. I bought it last summer - looking at it on occasion i could think of nothing to do with it. One day in the bathroom reading at random: in a book loaned to me on Nietzchi: - whom i had never read. A line or two he had written caused me to pause and say 'thank you' to the person who loaned me the book. When i said the words thank you i saw them cut into the hide - an hour or two later the project had begun. As the project began to take shape i decided to determine what the begining letters of thank you should stand for. Then changed my mind and selected only 4 of the letters to stand for various things the T.H.A.K. letters i decided would seperatley be cut into Fake felt hides and that friends and the public could determine what they would stand for. I even decided to do a few myself now that it seemed more open.
Be laboring the point
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Michael Tropea, Chicago
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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