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Nancy Grossman
No Name1968

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Sculpture of a human head covered in glossy black leather panels with stitched seams, a white ceramic nose, and metal grommets along the mouth, mounted on a riveted cylindrical base
Sculptural head in profile, constructed from glossy black leather panels with visible seaming, mounted on a cylindrical base with embossed surface texture.
Sculptural head in profile, constructed from stitched black leather panels over a life cast, with a pale plaster or resin nose and bearded lower face visible beneath the covering, mounted on a dark cylindrical base with incised linear marks.
Sculpture of a featureless human head and neck in black leather panels stitched and riveted together, mounted on a cylindrical leather base, photographed from the back against a light gray background.
Base of a dark ceramic vessel with matte black glaze, showing impressed dot-work signature reading "Grossman 68" and a small paper label inscribed "No Name" in green ink.
Artist or Maker
Nancy Grossman
United States, born 1940
Title
No Name
Date Made
1968
Medium
Leather-covered wood with white painted epoxy, shoe lace and metal
Dimensions
15 × 7 × 10 in. (38.1 × 17.78 × 25.4 cm) Head: 11 × 7 × 10 in. (27.94 × 17.78 × 25.4 cm) Base: 4 × 5 5/8 × 6 1/4 in. (10.16 × 14.29 × 15.88 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2014 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
M.2014.76a-b
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
American Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.

Copyright
© Nancy Grossman

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