Martin Wong, Receipt to Baird Jones, Exchanging “two drawings…for big stack of photos,” Ink on paper, 1986
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Martin Wong, receipt to Baird Jones, 1986. Ink on paper, 8″ x 10″.
Wong’s handwritten receipt, embellished with a sketch of a monstrous creature, documents the context for his two drawings of Baird. The text reads as follows:
GIVEN to BAIRD JONES
two (2) PORTRAIT DRAWINGS of HISSELF [sic]
IN EXCHANGE FOR BIG STACK of PHOTOS
Martin Wong
AUGUST 20th 1986