Portable War Memorial

• Title Portable War Memorial
• Category Print
• Medium Serigraph on tin
• Medium Pacific Northwest (subject or artist)
• Dimensions 22.5"h x 33.5"w x 8"d
• Framed Dimensions 36"h x 48"w
• Year Completed 1968
• Description An Environmental Tableau: Commentary on Political and Social Injustice, war and American materialism. The original is in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
• Notes Edward Kienholz was a self-taught artist and sculptor known for his large found object assemblages and tableaus. He was born during the Depression in Fairfield, Washington into a conservative, protestant, farming family of Swiss descent. Kienholz briefly attended college, first at Eastern Washington College, where he focused on music and general ed, and then Whitworth College where he took art and art history courses. Kienholz moved to Los Angeles in 1954, where he spent most of his artistic career, co-founded the Ferus Gallery with curator Walter Hopps (1932-2005) in 1957, and began working on his large-scale assemblages/tableaus. The Portable War Memorial (1968) in the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, embodies Kienholz’s anti-war stance, exploring a radical perspective on America’s relationship with the commercialization of war. A reproduction of this installation piece is in Whitworth University’s art collection. Later in his life he moved to Hope, Idaho where he died on June 10, 1994, at the age of 66.
• Artist Edward Kienholz American 1927-1994
• Credit Carlson Collection
• Location Weyerhaeuser 2nd Floor Hall
• Accession Number 1980.0007
• Status Checked Out
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