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Flight

1960s

Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This anthracite coal sculpture by C. Edgar Patience features an abstract sculpted upper portion with jagged, irregular edges protruding from the top of a rectangular polished base with rounded corners. A paper label adhered to the bottom of the base reads in printed black ink "Flight / N.F.S.".

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Catalog reference: 2016.70.1

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