Foulkes' mixed-media paintings are distinguished by their dark content and social references to the cultural horrors and fallacies surrounding the concept of the "American Dream." In this work, Foulkes has included a portion of a scorched blackboard and chair he found while sifting through a school building that had been destroyed by fire in South Central Los Angeles. The somber, haunting quality of the objects recalled the devastation Foulkes had encountered while serving in the military in post-World War II Germany.
Details
- Artist Name: Llyn Foulkes (American, 1934-)
- Title: In Memory of St. Vincent School
- Date: 1960
- Medium: Assemblage: oil, charred wood and plasticized ashes on blackboard, with chair
- Dimensions: blackboard: 66 x 72-1/4 in. (167.6 x 183.5 cm); chair: 26-1/4 x 13 x 12-1/2 in. (66.7 x 33.0 31.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Zlotnick
- Accession Number: P.1969.097a,b
- Copyright: © Llyn Foulkes
Object Information
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1969-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 1975.
Five Young Los Angeles Artists
- , 1965-01-01 to
Llyn Foulkes
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1962-09-18 to 1964-12-31
Llyn Foulkes: between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, Calif.), 1995-10-28 to 1996-01-21
- Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1996-02-03 to 1996-03-31
Paris Bienelle
- , 1967-01-01 to
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.
- Hammer Museum, 2009-03-08 to 2009-05-31
Llyn Foulkes
- Hammer Museum, 2013-02-03 to 2013-05-19
Made in America: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Norton Simon Museum
- Norton Simon Museum, 1999-06-24 to 2000-03-26
46 N. Los Robles: A History of The Pasadena Art Museum
- USC Pacific Asia Museum, 2011-11-17 to 2012-04-08
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1974
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1974-03-16 to 1974-06-06
Recent Acquisitions, 1969
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1969-11-24 to 1970-01-18
West Coast Art
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1972-06-20 to 1972-09-03
Works from the Pasadena Art Museum
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970-04-14 to 1970-05-10
A Salute to the Ferus Gallery
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-09-23 to 1994-03-20
Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974
- Norton Simon Museum, 1999-02-07 to 1999-06-06
- Armory Center for the Arts, 1999-02-07 to 1999-04-11
- Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.), 1999-02-07 to 1999-04-25
Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002
- Norton Simon Museum, 2004-11-05 to 2005-03-28
- Pasadena Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions 1969, p. 5
- Llyn Foulkes: The Sixties, 1987, p. 5
- Llyn Foulkes; Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 1995, p. 29
- Armory Center for the Arts/Art Center College of Design, Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, 1999, p. 44
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