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ROBERT MORRIS (B. 1931)
Atlanta Proposal
signed, dedicated, titled, and dated ‘Atlanta Proposal For Clark R. Morris 81’ (upper and lower edges)
graphite on paper
22 ⅞ x 35 in. (58.1 x 88.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1981.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
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Lot Essay

In 1981, a professor at Emory University, Peter Morrin of the High Museum and Catherine Fox, art critic for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, solicited a proposal from Robert Morris for a site-specific work to be included in that year’s now defunct Arts Festival of Atlanta’s Site Works program. For his contribution, Morris dynamited a hole in Piedmont Park and titled the resultant work, Sketch for 1-Megaton Tactical Weapon. Clearly alluding to a nuclear weapon, a sign placed next to the crater listed the size of crater vaporization, destruction and radiation as if the hole had been made by an act of war. The present lot was completed at the end of the Festival to commemorate Morris’ brief, yet impactful and audacious use of the Atlanta park.

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