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Alexis Smith
Orpheus: 3 Movies1974

Not on view
Wide horizontal print combining photography, painted text panels, and typeset columns; gold panel with handwritten 'ORPHEE' and black panel with 'ORPHEUS' in pale letters
Mixed-media horizontal panel combining printed text columns, a large flat orange handprint silhouette, a color photograph of a dense crowd, and a dark textured rectangle with an orange mark resembling a fingerprint or tab.
Horizontal mixed-media panel with five white pages arranged in a row; the leftmost displays the word "ORFEU" in gold block letters with a text block above; middle pages show scattered small orange-gold leaf or petal shapes in diminishing patterns; the rightmost panel is a black-and-white photograph of a person standing beside large equipment.
Artist or Maker
Alexis Smith
Title
Orpheus: 3 Movies
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1974
Medium
Paper, photographs, magazine pictures
Dimensions
12 3/4 x 62 3/4 in. (32.38 x 159.38 cm)
Credit Line
Modern and Contemporary Art Council, New Talent Purchase Award
Accession Number
M.76.85a-c
Classification
Collages
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Asher, Betty. New Selections: New Talent Award Winners. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.