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Kiki Smith
Tombs1989

Not on view
Installation of two parallel wooden ledges mounted on a white wall, each holding a row of reflective rectangular panels with varied silver, gray, brown, and white surface patterns

Kiki Smith, Tombs, 1989, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kiki Smith
Germany, Nuremberg, active United States, born 1954
Title
Tombs
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1989
Medium
Fired and mirrored glass and wood shelf
Dimensions
wood strips: 96 × 1 5/16 × 1/4 in. (243.84 × 3.39 × 0.64 cm) overall: 4 × 8 ft. (121.91 × 243.83 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Accession Number
AC1997.163.1.1-.22
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Fox, Howard and Robertson, Bruce Glass: Material Matters. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006.
Copyright
© Kiki Smith

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