Accession Number
2008/2.223

Title
Tacpere Maptom

Artist(s)
Lynda Benglis

Object Creation Date
1985

Medium & Support
glass

Dimensions
22 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (57.15 x 13.97 cm)

Credit Line
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 Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services

Label copy
Lynda Benglis
United States, born 1941
Tacpere Maptom
1985
Glass
2008/2.223

Subject matter
(Abstract, organic shape. Meaning of title is unclear. Perhaps taken from an anagram.)

Physical Description
Hollow glass piece. The bottom half (whose end is flat and thus serves as a base) is a solid spring green separated by a band of translucent yellow. The top half is a darker olive green with a Kelly green stripe that winds from the yellow band at center to the hole at this end of the piece.

Primary Object Classification
Sculpture

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Abstract (fine arts style)
biomorphic abstraction
glassworking