Sound Grammar

Richard de Menocal, Calligraphy with Box and Glasses, 1982, oil on canvas, 17 x 28 1⁄8 in. (43.2 x 71.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1985.30.14

Jim Dine, Untitled, from the portfolio A Tool Box, 1966, screenprint and collage on acetate, 24 x 19 in. (61.0 x 48.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1967.24.9

Jim Dine, Calico, from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists, Volume III, 1965, screenprint on paper, sheet and image: 39 7⁄8 x 30 in. (101.3 x 76.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Philip Morris Incorporated, 1966.29.25

Jim Dine, Wrench (from suite, Ten Winter Tools (handcoloured)), 1973, hand-colored lithograph on paper, image: 93⁄4 x 81⁄8 in. (24.9 x 20.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1974.41.1

Marvin Saltzman, Rake's Progress: the Emasculation of the Golden Bear, 1966, color intaglio on paper, plate: 17 7⁄8 x 24 3⁄8 in. (45.5 x 62.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1969.181.2

James Lovera, Lava Glazed Bowl, n.d., glazed earthenware, 4 5⁄8 x 10 in. (11.7 x 25.4 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Theodore Cohen in memory of his mother and her sisters: Rose Melmon Cohen, Blanche Melmon, Mary Melmon Greenberg and Fanny Melmon Liberman, 1998.122.15

Norman Scott ("Butch") Quinn, Electric Fishes, 1974, felt-tipped pen and ink on paperboard, sheet: 19 5⁄8 x 22 in. (50.0 x 56.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Lowell Marlin and James Alan Hollingsworth, 1986.35.2

Sunkoo Yuh, Carge (Self-Portrait), 1997, stoneware, 51 x 36 x 27 in. (129.5 x 91.4 x 68.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Williams Drutt English and H. Peter Stern in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery, 2007.47.35