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American
(1934–2022)
Donovan's Reef
1967
Polyurethane and lacquer on aluminum
26 x 25 x 0.125 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1998.62
Billy Al Bengston’s Donovan’s Reef is named after a 1963 John Ford movie starring John Wayne. Wayne’s macho, hard- drinking, hard-fighting screen presence was an apt stand-in for Bengston’s own artistic persona at the time. He identified with the actor’s tough-guy film legacy and, in a nod to Wayne’s prodigious output, titled all his work of the mid-1960s after Wayne’s movies.
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