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Lynda Benglis
1979
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plaster over wire mesh and cotton with gold leaf
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Accession Number
2007.6.260
About the Artist
Lynda Benglis
Lynda Benglis (born 1941 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American sculptor, installation artist, and provocateur whose work has been central to the development of postminimalist and feminist art since the late 1960s. She studied at the Newcomb College of Art in New Orleans before moving to New York, where she quickly became embedded in the vibrant downtown art scene of the late 1960s and entered...