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Nancy Grossman
No Name1968

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorModern Art
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.

Nancy Grossman, No Name, 1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2014 Collectors Committee, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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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