
Not on display
- Artist
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi 1924–2005
- Medium
- Plaster and pencil
- Dimensions
- Object: 290 × 290 × 200 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1983
- Reference
- T03765
Display caption
Mr Cruikshank was the name that scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave to a wooden head used to measure the penetration of X-rays into the cranium. Paolozzi read about it in various magazines and pasted the articles into a scrapbook (displayed in the vitrine nearby). From the magazine photographs he made a clay model and later cast this plaster version.
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
T03765 Plaster for ‘Mr Cruickshank’1950
Plaster and pencil, in two pieces, when assembled 11 3/8 × 11 3/8 × 7 7/8 (290 × 290 × 200)
Not inscribed Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1983
Prov: Given by the artist to the Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971 (Circ. 683 and 683a-1971)
See entry for T03764.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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