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Wing
Lynda Benglis (American, born in 1941)
1970
Medium/Technique
Cast aluminum
Dimensions
67 x 59 3/16 x 60 inches (170.2 x 150.4 x 152.4 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from the Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Fund, Joyce Linde, Frank B. Bemis Fund, Barbara Lee Endowment for Contemporary Art by Women, Towles Contemporary Art Fund, and the Vance Wall Foundation
Accession Number2011.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsSculpture
Painting or sculpture? Benglis defied convention by “painting” monumental sculptures, explaining, “they’re painterly, yet they’re dimensional...I do think of myself as a painter.” For pieces like Wing, Benglis poured liquid polyurethane that hardened, freezing a gesture. She later cast the pieces in solid aluminum to parody the hefty, often geometric metal works popular among male artists in the late 1960s.
DescriptionEdition 3/3, first edition cast in 1975, this edition cast in 2009. Inscribed and stamped: Lynda Benglis 75 3/3.
ProvenanceArtist to Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; 2011, Locks Gallery sold to MFA (Accession Date: January 26, 2011).
Copyright© 2011 Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.