- Title
- Double Top
- Date Made
- 1967
- Medium
- Fiberglass-reinforced polyester
- Dimensions
- 54 x 76 x 54 in. (137.16 x 193.04 x 137.16 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.73.38.16
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
De Wain Valentine has been fascinated by polished surfaces, shimmering colors, and aerospace materials since his youth in the Rocky Mountains, where he experimented with various plastics in shop class and learned about automotive lacquers while working at his father’s garage. Double Top is a hollow, molded form with a surface that resembles the custom cars Valentine fell in love with as a teenager. Though Valentine would have preferred to cast the sculpture in liquid polyester resin, it was not until he developed his own product—Valentine MasKast Resin—that he could produce resin sculptures at a scale this large.
Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
- Selected Bibliography
- Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
