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Billy Al Bengston
Humphrey1963

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Abstract digital or print artwork featuring a large black oval with a silver border, filled with a radially symmetrical ribbon design in gold and olive tones forming ten teardrop loops around a central white emblem

Billy Al Bengston, Humphrey, 1963, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Billy Al Bengston
United States,1934-2022
Title
Humphrey
Date Made
1963
Medium
Oil, Liquitex, enamel, and lacquer on Masonite
Dimensions
80 x 60 in. (203.2 x 152.4 cm)
Credit Line
Contemporary Art Council Fund
Accession Number
M.64.81
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice. Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.

  • "A Pictorial Essay on the Los Angeles County Museum." The Art Gallery 8, no.9 (1965): 7-15, 30-34.

  • Monte, James. Billy Al Bengston. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968.

Copyright
© Billy Al Bengston

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