Archie Wessels

Temescal Amity Works (aka Ted Purves Susanne Cockrell)

(2004–2007)

Michael Swaine

American, b. 1971

BROOM Mending Walk
2005

Paper, thread, ink, and marker
23 x 15.25 in. (58.42 x 38.735 cm)
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2011.43

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This object has the following keywords:

• brooms - Tools for sweeping. Originally made of twigs fixed to a handle; now refers to handled tools with bristles made of any material.
• mint green - Refers to a range of cool green colors resembling either the dark green colors of the leaves of the aromatic mint plant or the light green colors of confections flavored with mint.
• posters - Notices, usually decorative or pictorial, intended to be posted to advertise, promote, or publicize an activity, cause, product, or service; also, decorative, mass-produced prints intended for hanging. For small printed notices or advertisements intended for distribution by hand, use "handbills."
• printed ephemera - Printed works that are created to meet an array of immediate needs, usually transitory in nature not intended to be saved. Examples cold be broadsides, posters, leaflets, pamphlets, programs, postcards, tradecards, labels, tickets, handbills, sale notices, and valentines.