Crystal Pegasus: The Aura of the Flying Horse, Rockne Krebs

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1938–2011
Crystal Pegasus: The Aura of the Flying Horse, 1980
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: acrylic; collage; graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 79.2 x 44 cm irregular
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 31 3/16 x 17 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 36 x 30 in
Credit line: Gift of Philip M. Smith
Accession number: 2010.0232
Not on display

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Exhibition Label: "Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through," Aug-2013, Steve Goddard Around 1980, Krebs worked on a series of “spectral horses” made of ground glass prisms to be placed indoors near a source of sunlight. As a result, rainbow-like spectra scattered throughout the space, moving slowly with the transit of the sun.

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