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Ho Boy! Oh Boy! by Karl Wirsum — VisualArtsDB

Ho Boy! Oh Boy!

Ho Boy! Oh Boy!

1970

Medium: Blue ballpoint pen on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 43.3 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Genre: ball-point pen
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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ball-point penpen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)

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