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George Herms
Bomb Scare Box1970

Not on view
Horizontal wall-mounted wooden shadow box with two tiers, filled with found objects including a photograph, vintage seed packet, fishing lure, handwritten notes reading 'THE BOMB SCARE BOX,' spheres, a goat figurine, and crumpled metallic foil

George Herms, Bomb Scare Box, 1970, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Barry Lowen, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
George Herms
Title
Bomb Scare Box
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1970
Medium
Wood, paper, found objects, and paint
Dimensions
6 15/16 × 31 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. (17.62 × 81.12 × 7.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Barry Lowen
Accession Number
M.76.154.1
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.

  • A Focus on California: Selections from the Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
  • Herms, George. The River Book. Venice, California: Hamilton Press, 2014.
  • Tuchman, Maurice, and Carol S. Eliel. Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992
  • Tuchman, Maurice, and Carol S. Eliel. Visiones Paralelas: Artistas Modernos y Arte Marginal. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1993.
Copyright
© George Herms