Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
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Lot 167
NICK VACCARO "Homage to a Brick" (Assemblage ca. 1970s)
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Nick Vaccaro
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Homage to a Brick
"Magic Box" assemblage, circa 1970s
20" x 7 1/2" x 5 1/2"
A humorous sculpture of found objects, with a life insurance policy printed on sheet metal affixed to the box's hinged door, which opens to reveal a man's head beneath a brick. Titled to the reverse.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.
Good condition, with general wears to the painted box.
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Homage to a Brick
"Magic Box" assemblage, circa 1970s
20" x 7 1/2" x 5 1/2"
A humorous sculpture of found objects, with a life insurance policy printed on sheet metal affixed to the box's hinged door, which opens to reveal a man's head beneath a brick. Titled to the reverse.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.