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Protecting Myself the Best I Can (Weapons by the Door)
Lonnie Holley, American, born 1950
Geography:
Made in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1994Medium:
Terra-cotta pipe, golf club, baseball bats, metal pipe, clothespins, and tapeDimensions:
35 × 16 × 16 inches (88.9 × 40.6 × 40.6 cm)Copyright:
© Lonnie Holley / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Stephen Pitkin / Pitkin Studio / Art Resource (AR), New YorkCuratorial Department:
Contemporary Art
2017-229-24Credit Line:
Purchased with the African American Art fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017
Made in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1994Medium:
Terra-cotta pipe, golf club, baseball bats, metal pipe, clothespins, and tapeDimensions:
35 × 16 × 16 inches (88.9 × 40.6 × 40.6 cm)Copyright:
© Lonnie Holley / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Stephen Pitkin / Pitkin Studio / Art Resource (AR), New YorkCuratorial Department:
Contemporary Art
* Gallery 270, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor
Accession Number:2017-229-24Credit Line:
Purchased with the African American Art fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2017
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