id: 169869 accession number: 2012.12 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.12 updated: 2022-01-04 17:53:57.082000 Lagniappe 1, 1978. Lynda Benglis (American, 1941-). Cast paper, pigment, acrylic, glitter and polypropylene; overall: 129 x 66 x 30 cm (50 13/16 x 26 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2012.12 © Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Lagniappe 1 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1978 creation date earliest: 1978 creation date latest: 1978 current location: creditline: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: © Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: cast paper, pigment, acrylic, glitter and polypropylene department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Mixed Media find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lynda Benglis (American, 1941-) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 129 x 66 x 30 cm (50 13/16 x 26 x 11 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed: L. Benglis 3/26 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): July 20, 2012 - November 19, 2012. --- PROVENANCE Artist (1978); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1980); Texas Gallery (1980) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Lynda Benglis explains the inspiration for her work in this quote from 1982: "I felt that in the minimalist tradition there was no sense of theater. There was a puritanical quality of the work ethic. . . there was still the idea of the 'heroic gesture' in some way. Having been involved in logic, I wanted to make something that related to the body, that was humanistic, and not machine-like . . . I was interested in a non-logical, contained activity." In her later works, Lynda Benglis often used vertical, unknotted forms that are pinched in the center or at the ends, and layered with a thin skin of gold leaf. As the title of this work implies, Lagniappe 1 makes references to cheap, take-away gifts for costumers, but also to the human body, especially female attributes. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES