Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
Main Building
Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
Main Building
Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
| Title: | Protecting Myself the Best I Can (Weapons by the Door) |
| Date: | 1994 |
| Artist: | Lonnie Holley (American, born 1950) |
| Medium: | Terra-cotta pipe, golf club, baseball bats, metal pipe, clothespins, and tape |
| Dimensions: | 35 × 16 × 16 inches (88.9 × 40.6 × 40.6 cm) |
| Classification: | Sculpture |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the African American Art fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017 |
| Accession Number: | 2017-229-24 |
| Geography: | Made in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, North and Central America |
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Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
Main Building