Blinky Plants

Artist Royal Nebeker (born San Francisco, California, 1945; died Astoria, Oregon, 2014)

Date2001

MediumOil on canvas with collage

DimensionsStretcher: 70 1/4 x 50 1/4 in. (178.4 x 127.6 cm)
Overall: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of the artist and Augen Gallery, Portland

Object number2003.50.2

DescriptionDark figure at center holding a knife and squatting (seated?) figure with back to viewer at the right. A band with fragments of newspaper headlines runs across the bottom 1/3 of the picture.

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