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Merrily Tompkins
'Here Comes Trouble' Brooch1973

Not on view
Wall-mounted ceramic relief sculpture of a vintage truck's front end, painted in rusty brown and silver-gray, with round headlights and a license plate reading 'U79898 TRUCK WN'
Metal sculpture in the form of a vintage automobile seen from above, constructed from hammered copper and mixed metals with rounded fenders, circular headlights, a silver handle across the hood, and an open rear compartment lined with bright orange material.

Merrily Tompkins, 'Here Comes Trouble' Brooch, 1973, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Merrily Tompkins
United States, Washington, 1947-2018
Title
'Here Comes Trouble' Brooch
Date Made
1973
Medium
Copper, silver, enamel, plastic eyes, photographs, polymethyl methacrylate, sawdust
Dimensions
2 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in. (6.99 × 8.26 × 1.91 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2016.21.69
Classification
Jewelry and Adornments
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Copyright
© Merrily Tompkins