Mike Kelley, (1954-2012)

Paddle for Artist's Space

Paddle for Artist's Space, 1992
Screenprint on Beech wood with leather, incised with artist's initials and numbered 21/50 on end of the handle, to benefit Artist's Space, New York.
23 1/4 x 6 x 3/4in (59 x 15.2 x 1.9cm)

The text on the paddle front reads:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.