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Title: Houston Conwill's Seven Storey Mountain
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Brown, Rob
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Houston Conwill participated in an exhibition of 22 African-American artists, living in New York and Los Angeles, at the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park. Other works are visible on the walls behind his pyramid.
Photograph caption reads: "In the "Afro-American Abstraction" show, Houston Conwill's earthen-red "Seven Storey Mountain" is a large pyramid gridded with compartments housing fetishistic objects". Photograph dated: July 14, 1982.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078227
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b044_f2_i10
CARL0000079539
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24544
Subject: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery--Exhibitions
Art--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Sculpture, Modern
Barnsdall Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Conwill, Houston,1947-

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