American Art Depicting Tools
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Articles and essays from Resource Library in chronological order:
Jacob Kass: Painted Saws (5/3/04)
Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection (4/14/04)
Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection (3/3/03)
Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection (2/7/02)
From other websites:
ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection is a 2017 exhibit at the Columbia
Museum of Art which says:"ReTooled celebrates the prevalence
of tools in our lives with art that offers affectionate, sometimes playful,
tributes to tools as functional objects. It profiles 28 visionary artists
including major names such as Arman, Richard Estes, Jacob Lawrence, Fernand
Léger, and H.C. Westermann; photographers Berenice Abbott, William
Eggleston, and Walker Evans; and pop artists Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg,
and James Rosenquist. The exhibition consists of four sections: Objects
of Beauty, Material Illusions, Instruments of Satire, and Tools: An Extension
of Self." Also see press
release Accessed 8/17
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