Flashes of Insight
Kay Whitcomb
(American, 1921 – 2015)
1972
(not assigned)La Jolla, CA, USA or Belgium
Medium/TechniqueEnamel on iron alloy
DimensionsLength x width: 116.2 × 37.5 × 1.3 cm (45 3/4 × 14 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
Credit LineLucy Scarborough Conant Fund
Accession number2021.788
On View
Not on viewClassificationsMetalwork
InscriptionsSignature on front, lower right corner in red: "Kay Whitcomb 1972" ; full text in work "FLASHES of INSIGHT / Come at Odd / Moments / and Require MENTAL / Gymnastics to / FOCUS / Introspectively"Provenance2015, by inheritance from the artist to her daughter, Deborah Krupenia, Lexington, MA; 2021, consigned by Deborah Krupenia to Mark McDonald (dealer), Hillsdale, NY; 2021, sold by Mark McDonald to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)
