Game Fish

Larry Fuente, Game Fish, 1988, fiberglass, black auto-body type epoxy resin, polyurethane resin, plywood, plastic found objects including beads, buttons, poker chips, badminton birdies, ping pong balls, rhinestones, coins, dice, plastic figurines, combs, miniature pinball games, , 51 12112 1210 34 in. (130.8285.627.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1991.61, © 1988, Larry Fuente

Artwork Details

Title
Game Fish
Artist
Date
1988
Dimensions
51 12112 1210 34 in. (130.8285.627.3 cm)
Copyright
© 1988, Larry Fuente
Credit Line
Gift of the James Renwick Alliance and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
Mediums Description
fiberglass, black auto-body type epoxy resin, polyurethane resin, plywood, plastic found objects including beads, buttons, poker chips, badminton birdies, ping pong balls, rhinestones, coins, dice, plastic figurines, combs, miniature pinball games,
Classifications
Subjects
  • Fantasy — animal — fish
  • Object — toy — doll
  • Object — written matter
  • Object — toy — blocks
Object Number
1991.61

Artwork Description

One of the Renwick Gallery's most beloved treasures, Game Fish whimsically captures the artist's love of surface ornamentation. Since the late 1960s, Larry Fuente has delighted in covering readily identifiable forms with beads, plastic baubles, buttons, and mass-produced items of no intrinsic value, transforming the mundane into unique objects. Size is no deterrent to Fuente, who once spent five years coating a 1960 Cadillac sedan with one million brightly colored ornaments.

Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019

Works by this artist (4 items)

Jacob Landau, Horses and Men, 1966, woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1967.100.2
Horses and Men
Date1966
woodcut on paper
Not on view
Jacob Landau, Human nature is originally good. Any evil in it results from the changes made upon it by external things. Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world for all our woe. --Lu Wang (1139-1192), Chinese Philosopher and John Milton's Paradise Lost. From the series Great Ideas., 1960, watercolor on paperboard mounted on board, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.168
Human nature is originally good. Any evil in it results…
Date1960
watercolor on paperboard mounted on board
Not on view
Jacob Landau, Yes-No, n.d., woodcut, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1967.100.1
Yes-No
Daten.d.
woodcut
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2016.11 - SAAM-2016.11_6 - 124929
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
November 13, 2015March 6, 2022
Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.

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