Empty Chair or The Last Colonial
1969
Alfonso Ossorio
American, born The Philippines. 1916–1990
Painting & Sculpture
- Maker/Artist
- Ossorio, Alfonso
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Glass and plastic marbles, West African wood figures, tree fragments, pebbles, geode, iron nails, coral, seashells, wood shoe trees, lobster claws, sword, painted human foot bones and vertebra, faux pearls, plastic and wooden letters, plastic sheets and scraps, wood scraps, painted wood, animal claws and bones, domino, glass eyes, bell, and other materials on plastic sheets mounted on wood
- Medium
- glass, plastic, marbles, west, african, wood, figures, tree, fragments, pebbles, geode, iron, nails, coral, seashells, shoe, trees, lobster, claws, sword, painted, human, foot, bones, vertebra, faux, pearls, wooden, letters, sheets, scraps, animal, domino, eyes, bell, other, materials, mounted
- Dimensions
- 46 3/8 x 39 1/4 x 15 7/8" (117.7 x 99.7 x 40.3 cm)
- Departments
- Painting & Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 688.1971
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
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