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Abstract mixed-media drawing on off-white paper featuring a central area of pale orange and pink wash. Surrounding this are faint graphite lines, scribbles, and smudges in grey and black.
Chorus Line Skinned
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Chorus Line Skinned

Artist Hiram Williams (American, 1917 - 2003)
Date1986
MediumMixed media on paper
Dimensions10 x 18 3/8 in. (25.4 x 46.7 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Hiram and Avonell Williams
Object number1988.2.115
Collections
Visual DescriptionAbstract mixed-media drawing on off-white paper featuring a central area of pale orange and pink wash. Surrounding this are faint graphite lines, scribbles, and smudges in grey and black.
A tall, rectangular yellow painting featuring a dark, drippy black mass and thin, dark vertical lines, faint scribbles, and scattered splatters forming the outline of an alligator in water.
Swimming Gator
Hiram Williams
1993
A faint pencil outline of a head. The center features a diffused patch of red pigment containing a dark, jagged diagonal mark. A small grey smudge sits below the red.
Contented Man
Hiram Williams
1983
A drawing featuring a drawn upper border enclosing a smudged grey wash with thin diagonal lines. Below this is a thick, wavy reddish-brown band covered in short dark marks, with two vertical streaks extending into the blank white lower section.
Where Only Man is Vile
Hiram Williams
1992
A drawing featuring a sloping, pale greenish-tan lower section beneath a central, shaded blue-grey rectangle. Thin, erratic dark lines stretch vertically and diagonally across the composition, overlapping both the pale and blue-grey areas.
Mysterious Events in the Great Smokies
Hiram Williams
1992
An abstract painting on paper featuring muted earthy pink and brown washes, bisected by a faint horizontal line. A dark, blurred triangular shape occupies the lower center, pointing upwards toward the dividing line.
Beach Road (Audience Goes to Beach)
Hiram Williams
1985
Abstract painting with a large, rectangular field of pale pink and white dominating the upper center. From its bottom edge, several irregular, drip-like shapes extend downwards, becoming darker pink and red towards the bottom.
Bloody Chorus Line
Hiram Williams
1978
A drawing featuring an earthy reddish-brown wash overlaid with thin, erratic, grass-like lines at the lower left. Three thick, textured white vertical strips span the composition.
Mountain Ranges and Beech (Audience Destroys its Environment)
Hiram Williams
1992
A drawing with a textured, dark brownish-grey undulating mound across the lower half, featuring a U-shaped dip in the center. Thin, erratic dark lines sprout upward from the mound into a smudged, off-white upper section.
Mystical Events in the Muncy Hills
Hiram Williams
1992
Sketchy portrait drawing of a man with wild, thin grey hair and a long beard. The face appears weathered, rendered in muted greys, pinks, and blues. He wears a simple collared shirt outlined in pencil.
Lennie as a Sceptic
Hiram Williams
1980
A drawing of a shaded, textured mound occupying the lower half. Several thin, sweeping upward-pointing arrows rise from the mound. An additional arrow points horizontally across the left side of the mound.
North Mountain and Religious Impulses
Hiram Williams
1991
An abstract figure of a horse rendered in energetic brushstrokes and smudges of green, yellow, black, blue, and white. There are collages photographic images of a child and dog on the horse's head and figures in a landscape to the horse's right.
With the Wind
William N. Schaaf
1984 - 1986
A drawing depicts a central, upright, oblong shape shaded in charcoal and pink, rising from a low band of faint, scribbled graphite lines.
Orton's Stump
Hiram Williams
1983

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