<p>Llyn Foulkes, <em>Fast Asleep</em>, 1975. mixed media, overall: 8 1/2 × 10 1/8 in. (21.6 × 25.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Andrea Rosen Gallery 2024.399</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1975
- Medium
- mixed media
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8 1/2 × 10 1/8 in. (21.6 × 25.7 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Llyn Foulkes
Artist
Painting
Llyn Foulkes was an American painter and assemblage artist whose large-scale works combined gestural abstraction with found objects, architectural fragments, and mixed media to create densely layered visual environments. Working primarily in Los Angeles from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive approach that resisted easy categorization within postwar movements, instead synthesizing elements of expressionism, assemblage, and environmental installation. His practice engaged with the urban landscape and the accumulated detritus of American consumer culture as both formal material and conceptual subject matter.
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- Llyn Foulkes
- Year
- 1975
- Medium
- mixed media
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8 1/2 × 10 1/8 in. (21.6 × 25.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1975-164681
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
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- Status
- verified