Object Details
- Artist
- Tim Rollins and K.O.S., founded New York City 1982
- Tim Rollins, born Pittsfield, ME 1955-died New York City 2017
- Printer
- Matthew Michel
- Publisher
- Pyramid Atlantic
- Exhibition Label
- Tim Rollins founded the artist collective K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) in New York in 1982 with a group of children from his neighborhood in the South Bronx. Working together with a changing group of “underachieving” students, Rollins has directed numerous art projects that foster collective creativity. Working with at-risk area kids participating in the Pyramid Atlantic workshop’s visual literacy program in Silver Spring, Maryland, Rollins chose Franz Josef Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation, to be their source of inspiration. As they listened to the music, the group made drawings and prints and contemplated the beginning of the universe, moving from the void to the primal and momentous appearance of light and the ensuing emergence of heaven, earth, celestial bodies, land, sea, plants, and animals. Each of the prints embodies one of the seven days of creation.
- Multiplicity, 2011
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Anne and Ronald Abramson
- 2004
- Object number
- 2008.37.1.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Graphic Arts-Print
- Medium
- screenprint with chine collé on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 1/2 x 15 in. (54.6 x 38.1 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Religion\Old Testament\Creation
- Object\written matter\sheet music
- Record ID
- saam_2008.37.1.4
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7fce2c888-d194-437b-a0cd-8ff352dee28b
