MEDIA NOTES
Artist
Thomas Barrow
1938 Kansas City, Missouri - 2024 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Date1984-89
MediumPolaroid prints and mixed media on board
DimensionsOverall: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsCollage, Montage, & Assemblage
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
Object numberPC1997.22.1
DescriptionA collage composed of various newspaper and magazine clippings and other printed papers around two central Polaroid prints. The Polaroid prints are stacked vertically with the words "Media Notes 1975–1989" written in ink between them. The top print features industrial machinery, likely a filling machine, while the bottom depicts newspaper clippings. The images around them include newspaper articles, advertisements, product packaging, and comic panels. Of note are an article from The Albuquerque Tribune regarding selenium in the water near Grants, New Mexico, panels from Peanuts and Spider Man, a classified advertisement for a Jaguar Mark 9 sold by artist Fritz Scholder, and part of a ten-dollar bill.On View
Not on viewTerms
January 6, 1969
1992
