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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 joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts an

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 media
Found objects