Abstract sculpture shaped like a shed made of dirty cardboard and trinkets with an antenna
Bruce Conner
b. McPherson, Kansas, 1933–2008
Walkie-Talkie
1959
Cardboard, brown paper, painted doll head and arm, metal antenna, metal washers, fabric, paint, wax, metal staples, wire, thread, printed papers, and thumbtacks
32 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (83.1 x 28.6 x 33.6 cm)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2008 (08.2)
© 2021 Conner Family Trust, San Francisco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Lee Stalsworth