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Tom Shelton"Alphabet Colors, " Crayon, Colored Pencil, Ink on Canvas by Tom Shelton2018
2018
$8,100
£6,220.45
€7,128.56
CA$11,402.80
A$12,773.66
CHF 6,643.89
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NOK 84,585.53
SEK 79,758.13
DKK 53,205.63
About the Item
"Alphabet Colors" is an original mixed media drawing on canvas by Tom Shelton. The artist used crayon, colored pencil, and ink. The artist says:
“Looking at cursive writing teaching aids, I looked for, and couldn't find transitions between all the letters in the alphabet. I wanted to see what each transition looked like. I wondered if it was possible to write every transition, from one letter to another, both in front and behind ("ab", "ba"), using each transition only once, in 26 lines. And if there would be a pattern. That would mean, using the letters "a", "b", "c", and "d" that there would have to be the sequences, "acdb", "bdca", "cbad", and "dabc", and no other.
Luckily, my wife's father is a mathematics professor, so I put the question to him. A couple hours later he replied with a formula. Not being able to see any pattern from the letters, I assigned each letter a color to get a better view. This picture is the result: the letters on the left, and their colors on the right - both right and left are the same pattern.”
35" x 48" art
Tom Shelton graduated with a B.S. in Botany from the University of Cincinnati in 1964 and spent three semesters at the University of Michigan majoring in Forestry from 1964-1965. In 1972 Shelton completed the graduate art program at the Eastern Michigan University in which he received a M.F.A. in painting. Shelton’s artworks are included in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, The Allen Museum of Art at Oberlin College in Ohio and the International Headquarters of Fiserv in Milwaukee.
- Creator:Tom Shelton (American)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
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