Michael Byron

Gothic Plaid
1986

A large, dark-toned abstract painting is displayed on a wall, with a smaller, brightly colored painting of a figure in traditional dress affixed over it. In front of the paintings, a small figurine of a superhero stands on a vertical pole mounted on a circular red base.
A large, dark-toned abstract painting is displayed on a wall, with a smaller, brightly colored painting of a figure in traditional dress affixed over it. In front of the paintings, a small figurine of a superhero stands on a vertical pole mounted on a circular red base.

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Date
1986

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Oil on fabric with wax and bronze figures, metal stand and wood base

Dimensions
Overall: 92 × 119 3/4 × 17 5/8in. (233.7 × 304.2 × 44.8 cm)

Accession number
91.51a-f

Edition
Edition of 3

Publication
Cast by Excaliber Foundry

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo in memory of Dorothea L. Leonhardt

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Michael Byron
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