Don Hazlitt
(Stockton, California, 1948 - )
Untitled
1978
Enamel, oil, wire and peanut shells on paper mache
6 x 6 1/2 x 7 in. (15.2 x 16.5 x 17.8 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a National Gift program of Contemporary Art, is announced by the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
2009.30.9
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Hazlitt’s modest construction blurs the boundaries between painting, collage and sculpture. The artist embedded lumpy, bumpy peanut shells into a painted papier-maché armature. In this talisman-like object, Hazlitt embodies both high art with the use of oil paint and outsider art with the rough, hand-wrought surface and use of discarded peanut shells.
Keywords
Mixed mediaFound objects