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The Great Speckled Bird

2013
(American, 1944-)
American, 21st century
color screenprint on four sheets of perforated player-piano roll
Overall: 28.6 x 610.9 cm (11 1/4 x 240 1/2 in.)
Gift of Stephen Dull 2018.53
© Allen Ruppersberg, Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
Edition: Edition 8/12
Location: not on view
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This work by Allen Ruppersberg is an evocative visualization of American folk music. It takes its title from the Southern hymn “The Great Speckled Bird,” and it is printed on a player piano roll for that song. Across the image, Ruppersberg hand-wrote the lyrics to different hymns on American motel stationary that he collected over a period of several decades.
The Great Speckled Bird

The Great Speckled Bird

2013

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg, Gemini G. E. L. at Joni Moisant Weyl

(American, 1944-)
American, 21st century

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