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HOWARDENA PINDELL (1943- ) War Games Disguised II.
Tempera, gouache, postcards, punched paper, thread, nails and plastic toy soldiers on museum board, 1980-81. 343x419 mm; 13 1/2x16 1/2 inches; 508x406 mm; 16x20 inches, including the mount and Plexiglass box. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left and titled in pencil, lower right, on the mount.
Provenance: private collection, New Jersey.
Exhibited: Howardena Pindell: Recent Works on Paper, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, April 4 - May 2, 1981, with the gallery label on the frame back.
In 1979, just as Howardena Pindell was beginning the next phase of her career as a professor of art at SUNY, Stony Brook, she was injured in a serious car accident that left her with acute memory loss. Her subsequent 1980-81 Oval Memory series transformed postcards saved from her global travels into elaborate assemblages that helped reconstruct her memories. War Games Disguised II and lot 123 Mask show how Pindell's experimental assemblage evolved to incorporate political and social themes.
