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Paul McCarthy
Pinocchio Plug1994

Not on view
Sculpture combining a tall honey-brown wooden dowel inserted into a rough, olive-gray clay mass with raised floral relief and an attached off-white wedge with a protruding metal rod
Sculptural assemblage combining a roughly modeled gray clay head resting on its side, pierced by a wooden dowel, alongside a white plaster cast fragment with a small metal rod protruding from it.

Paul McCarthy, Pinocchio Plug, 1994, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Paul McCarthy
United States, Utah, Salt Lake City, active Los Angeles, born 1945
Title
Pinocchio Plug
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1994
Medium
Modeling clay, plaster, and broomstick
Dimensions
42 x 18 x 17 in. (106.68 x 45.72 x 43.18 cm)
Credit Line
Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund
Accession Number
AC1998.224.1.1-.3
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary 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.

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.