Apr 04, 2019 - Sale 2504

Sale 2504 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE (1933 - )
Towers in Watts.

Offset lithograph on wove paper, 1979. 216x159 mm; 8 1/2x6 1/4 inches. Signed, titled and dated in ink, lower margin.

Provenance: Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, with the gallery label on the frame back; private collection, California.

Aside from his well known work with assemblage, John Outterbridge was also an educator and an activist. He began teaching at the Compton Communicative Arts Academy and the Watts Towers Art Center in the mid-1960s. Outterbridge became director of the academy in 1970 and of the arts center in 1975.