- Artist or Maker
- Greg Noll
United States, active United States, California, Hermosa Beach, 1937-2021 - Title
- Surfboard
- Date Made
- circa 1960
- Medium
- Polyurethane foam, fiberglass cloth, polyester resin, wood
- Dimensions
- 117 × 22 × 10 in. (297.18 × 55.88 × 25.4 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2011.132
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Notes
Surfing legend Greg Noll began his board-making career as a teenager in Hermosa Beach, California. He originally made boards of wood, but with the advent of the surfing craze in the late 1950s and the decreasing availability of balsa, his business in lightweight and maneuverable foam and fiberglass boards burgeoned. The new, lighter materials allowed a wider group of enthusiasts to enter the sport. They also permitted greater surface design choices, allowing surfers to demand ever more customized boards. This board features a sophisticated double stringer (wood inlay) in a figure-8 pattern and Noll’s signature “chopstick” fin (a narrow sliver of wood embedded at a diagonal in the fiberglass fin). Noll was an accomplished surfer himself, earning the nickname “Da Bull” for the enormous waves he surfed at Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu.
Bobbye Tigerman
2011
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
