Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz

Edward Kienholz

American (Fairfield, Washington, 1927 - 1994, Hope, Idaho)

Nancy Reddin Kienholz

American (Los Angeles, California, 1943)

Night Clerk at the Young Hotel

1982-1983
sculpture | mixed media
Not currently on view in the museum
Night Clerk at the Young Hotel
118 3/4 in. x 120 1/2 in. x 48 1/2 in. (301.63 cm x 306.07 cm x 123.19 cm)
Acquired 1984
Collection SFMOMA
Purchase through a gift of Mrs. Henry Potter Russell
© Edward Kienholz Estate
84.260
Keywords

tableaux, hotels, lobbies, desks, mailboxes, crime watch, private, offices, gates, reading, lamps, telephones, clerks, decrepit, tattered, run down

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