Wing
Lynda Benglis
(American, born in 1941)
1970
Medium/TechniqueCast aluminum
Dimensions67 x 59 3/16 x 60 inches (170.2 x 150.4 x 152.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum 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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
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.
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.
