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This rectangular, tangerine-orange panel has rounded corners and a black dot at the center. It hangs on a dove gray wall and is about three times as tall as it is wide. The surface appears streaked with golden yellow where light reflects off some areas of the wax, especially in the top half.

Lynda Benglis

1st Wax Work, 1966

Not on View

Medium

purified pigmented beeswax, dammar resin, and powdered aniline dye on Masonite

Dimensions

overall: 60.01 × 18.57 × 2.86 cm (23 5/8 × 7 5/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Accession Number

2016.11.4

Artists / Makers

Lynda Benglis (artist) American, born 1941

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Provenance

Dorothy [born 1935] and Herbert [1922-2012] Vogel, New York; gift 2016 to NGA.

Associated Names

Vogel, Herbert, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

2014: Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, no. 26, repro.