Houston Conwill's Seven Storey Mountain

@ Los Angeles Public Library

Brown, Rob

Description

Title supplied by cataloger.Houston Conwill participated in an exhibition of 22 African-American artists, living in New York and Los Angeles, at the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park. Other works are visible on the walls behind his pyramid.Photograph caption reads: "In the "Afro-American Abstraction" show, Houston Conwill's earthen-red "Seven Storey Mountain" is a large pyramid gridded with compartments housing fetishistic objects". Photograph dated: July 14, 1982.

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Image

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Photographic Prints

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Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation

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