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Title
Why's Abe winking?
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Leach, Larry
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1963
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated July 29, 1963 reads, "Maybe it's because of all the current Civil War centennial celebrations, but, anyway, Selma Bland, Tarzana, secretary at the Los Angeles County Museum, joins in the fun with this enlargement of the former president. The winking Lincoln from a $5 bill reproduction is one example of 'pop art' now on display at the museum. For the price of an original traditional painting, you may acquire art works of rows of soup cans neatly stacked on supermarket shelves, an impression of a gum-ball machine or comic-book pictures. The museum in Exposition Park is currently housing a 'pop art' exhibit."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00115561
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d017_f11_i17
CARL0005323057
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49589
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Pictorial works
Los Angeles County Museum--Officials and employees
Museums--California--Los Angeles
Art museums--California--Los Angeles
Art museums--Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Pop art--California--Los Angeles--Exhibitions
Pop art--California--Los Angeles
Presidents in art
Paintings
Women--California--Los Angeles
Winking
Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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