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John McCracken
Don't Tell Me When to Stop1967

On view:
Geffen Galleries, The Stuff of Alchemy: Plastic in Art
Tall, narrow trapezoidal panel in flat tomato-red, leaning against a white gallery wall, with a smooth matte surface and slight wedge shape
Tall, narrow rectangular panel in solid fluorescent orange with a lavender-painted edge, leaning slightly against a white gallery wall.
Artist or Maker
John McCracken
United States, California, Berkeley, 1934-2011
Title
Don't Tell Me When to Stop
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1967
Medium
Polyester resin, fiberglass and plywood
Dimensions
120 1/4 x 20 1/4 x 3 in. (305.44 x 51.44 x 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Kleiner Foundation
Accession Number
M.73.38.13
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Tuchman, Maurice. The Kleiner Foundation: Gift of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.

  • A Focus on California: Selections from the Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
  • Zelevansky, Lynn, V. L. Hillings, M. Peternák, B. LaBelle, P. Frank, I. Katzenstein, A. Le Blanc. Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.