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Terrence O'Shea
Documentation of the Artist's Act of Placing One of His Sculptures in the La Brea Tar Pit1971

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Typewritten 1971 letter on white paper beside a color photograph of an amber-toned, door-shaped sculpture with a peaked top, both mounted on white

Terrence O'Shea, Documentation of the Artist's Act of Placing One of His Sculptures in the La Brea Tar Pit, 1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council, New Talent Purchase Award, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Terrence O'Shea
United States, 1941-2002
Title
Documentation of the Artist's Act of Placing One of His Sculptures in the La Brea Tar Pit
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1971
Medium
Photograph and typed letter
Dimensions
Frame: 24 1/4 × 32 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (61.6 × 81.92 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Modern and Contemporary Art Council, New Talent Purchase Award
Accession Number
M.72.86.6
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Contemporary 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.

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