Larry Calkins

American, b. 1955

History of Scavengers
2000

Wax, paint, and soot on wood
5.5 x 7.5 x 1.375 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2003.36

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• Animals, Fossil - Sources:
  - Work cat.: Failla, G. Fossili di Sicilia, 1986.
  - LC database, Sept. 1, 1998
• bones
• mixed-media
• wood

• Uses of the Real I , 1/20/2008 - 4/30/2011
• Uses of the Real Part II , 7/1/2009 - 8/30/2010