
UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageCarrie Jenkins
"Night Crawler", 2005
Acrylic on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Jonathan Schiff, 2008.
2021.08.148
Item Description:
A painting of a woman with heavy eye makeup wearing a long black dress, heels, and sweeping carrot-red hair decorated with black flowers. She kneels over the body of a deer wrapped in white fabric with only its ears and antlers visible. Her dress becomes streaks of paint and visible brushstrokes at the hem.