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2015

In Kyo-Kawara

Linda J. Mendelson

American, born 1940

This coat was commissioned by Julie Schafler Dale. The text is from the Haiku poem "Kyo-Ah" (Bird of Time) while the graduated disc-shaped forms recall traditional Japanese roof tiles known as onigawara.

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Linda J. Mendelson, In Kyo-Kawara, 2015 | Philadelphia Museum of Art