Green, purple, red, and yellow diagonal straight lines that intersect and radiate across the surface

Fourier Transformation

Artist Joan Truckenbrod (American, born 1945)

Date1976

MediumColor photocopies on clear plastic sheets from plotter drawing in pen

Dimensionssheet/object: 7 15/16 in x 10 1/2 in; frame: 18 3/16 in x 18 1/4 in

ClassificationPrint

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Joan Truckenbrod

Object number2008.15.2

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ca. 1976

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