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Lynn Aldrich
Breaker1999

Not on view
Large sculpture of bundled garden hoses arching into a wave form, in layered greens and teals, with brass fittings at the curling tip, displayed on a concrete gallery floor

Lynn Aldrich, Breaker, 1999, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council, 1999 Art Here and Now Purchase, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Lynn Aldrich
Title
Breaker
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1999
Medium
Steel, wood, fiberglass, and garden hoses
Dimensions
36 x 32 x 50 in. (91.44 x 81.28 x 127 cm)
Credit Line
Modern and Contemporary Art Council, 1999 Art Here and Now Purchase
Accession Number
M.2000.48
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Daichendt, G. James and Christina Valentine. 2013. Lynn Aldrich: Un/common Objects. Pasadena: Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design.

  • Newhouse, Kristina. "Lynn Aldrich: Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA, March 13-April 27, 1999." Art & Text 22(1999): 79.

Copyright
© Lynn Aldrich

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