Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1785-1789
Object Number:
1916.7
Medium:
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Memorial collage/ mat board of a survivors efforts to find friends
Object Number:
2003.72
Date:
2001
Medium:
Paper, plastic
Description:
Framed Aon ID card, 19 pages of notes and a Memorial card detailing the whereabouts of Aon employees after 9/11
Gallery Label:
The artist was an employee of Aon who was late arriving to work on 9/11 because she stopped to vote. That day she lost about 60 friends and colleagues in the collapse. The collage is a collection of notes and scribblings she wrote down while frantically and tirelessly researching the whereabouts and/or survival of her friends.
Credit Line:
Gift of Hilary North
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
