Understanding Taxes ' 79

Object Details

Catalogue Status: Research in Progress
Description: On black ground, a male figure viewed from the mid-torso, rendered in white hatching lines; his head shown in profile at left and right to suggest movement, his left arm rendered in four positions with curving lines to indicate motion. Surrounding the left eye of the frontal face, a square shows a small section of the man's face in full color. Behind the figure, horizontal yellow, red, and blue lines recede to the horizon. Dotted white lines emerge from the man's eyes, the ones at center pointing up towards an array of colorful graphics. At top, printed white text: UNDERSTANDING TAXES '79; below, a curving group of images including the American flag; a portrait of Abraham Lincoln; the planet Saturn; a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; a hand holding a Social Security card; a silver dollar coin, a purple hot-air balloon with the yellow label "W-2"; the central oval medallion of a one-dollar bill, the number"1" inside; a purple rose; a hand holding a card printed with "APRIL 15" in black block letters; a white line drawing similar to a plug or nuclear radiation symbol, and a white dove carrying a sheet with "1040-A" printed in orange in its beak. Below these icons, a curving row of purple question marks. Centered below, the earth printed in turquoise. Composition contained within white framing line.

1979

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