UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageMichael Childers
"John Buck", 2005
Color photograph
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of the artist, 2008.
20221.08.202
Item Description:
A framed color photograph of an elderly man posing beside an off-white sculpture of a nude female figure whose head has been replaced with an arrangement of objects that extends out of the picture. The arrangement includes mechanical forms, such as wheels and propellers, as well as whirling cartoonish shapes and a series of disembodied heads. Seven arrows point inwards from this contraption at a three-dimensional circle that sits on the figure’s shoulders.
- Framed: 17.625 x 13.625 x 0.75 in
- Created: 2005
- Inventory Number: 2021.08.202