Fred Otnes (B. 1930)

Historic Americans 1888

Details

Fred Otnes (B. 1930)
Historic Americans 1888
signed 'Fred Otnes' (lower left)
collage on canvasboard
26½ x 34¾ in. (67.3 x 88.3 cm.)
Executed in 1987

Provenance

Commissioned by the National Geographic Society.

Literature

National Geographic magazine, January 1988, p. 32-33.
The Art of National Geographic: A Century of Illustration, National Geographic Society, 1999, p. 234.

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Lot Essay

Fred Otnes was commissioned by National Geographic in 1987 to create 11 collages in honor of the 1988 centennial issue. The present lot was published in the January 1988 issue and is captioned "Like the contents of a catch-all drawer in great-grandmother's house, fragments of an era help capture the time when the National Geographic Society was born."

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