Untitled (Lawn Hair), 1969

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Medium

enamel paint on metal lawn chair

Dimensions

overall: 87 × 72.39 × 50.8 cm (34 1/4 × 28 1/2 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Frances Fralin)

Accession Number

2015.19.3925

Artists / Makers

Karl Wirsum (artist) American, 1939 - 2021

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Inscription

in center of chair seat: LAWN HAIR; on front edge of chair seat, in script: Musical Chair; in center of chair back: SNIFF SNIFF / I THINK I SMELL / GRASS; on top center of chair back reverse, in script: Law 'N' Order; on bottom center of chair back reverse: IT IS ALWAYS AUGUST UNDERNEATH YOUR ARMS

Provenance

Found at a second-hand store and painted for a 1969 exhibition in Washington; purchased 1975 by Frances Fralin, Arlington;[1] gift 1991 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The chair was shown at a 1969 exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery - Dupont Center, which had formerly been the Washington Gallery of Modern Art until it merged with the Corcoran in 1968. After the exhibition the chair was moved to the Corcoran along with everything else from the Dupont Center, and was later placed in a miscellaneous Corcoran sale, where Fralin purchased it. Fralin worked at both the Washington Gallery of Modern Art and the Corcoran. See her letter of 18 July 1991 to Phyllis Kind, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Fralin, Frances

Exhibition History

1969: The Hairy Who, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, 16 April - 11 May 1969.

2018: Hairy Who? 1966 – 1969, Art Institute of Chicago, 2018-2019.