busy, colorful layered image rendered in multicolored pigments; green flooring with linear square pattern along bottom edge of image; red and purple creature, with two legs on the floor, each foot containing smaller legs and a red mouth extended downward with jagged teeth in LRC; several layered pieces of paper added to creature, one of which is a long had with two protruding eyes, and three slender, jagged openings in pink pigment; circular shape in URC resembling a planet in URC; orange and red long squiggly shape, with slender, curving protrusions in top right; upside down rising staircase in gold and peach pigment in top center; long neon green shape in center left of image; neon pink shape with orange linear pattern in LCQ; gaping purple mouth with red interior and sharp white teeth in ULQ; yellow creature in the shape of a squared-off arch, with three curving legs, long nose, oval mouth and a single eye on forehead in bottom left edge

%C2%A9 2019 Paul Lamantia

Crime Alley, 1969

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Title
Crime Alley
Artist Life
born 1938
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.124.4
Provenance
The artist, Chicago; Sheryl R. Johnson, Chicago (wife of the artist); given to MIA, 2018.
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busy, colorful layered image rendered in multicolored pigments; green flooring with linear square pattern along bottom edge of image; red and purple creature, with two legs on the floor, each foot containing smaller legs and a red mouth extended downward with jagged teeth in LRC; several layered pieces of paper added to creature, one of which is a long had with two protruding eyes, and three slender, jagged openings in pink pigment; circular shape in URC resembling a planet in URC; orange and red long squiggly shape, with slender, curving protrusions in top right; upside down rising staircase in gold and peach pigment in top center; long neon green shape in center left of image; neon pink shape with orange linear pattern in LCQ; gaping purple mouth with red interior and sharp white teeth in ULQ; yellow creature in the shape of a squared-off arch, with three curving legs, long nose, oval mouth and a single eye on forehead in bottom left edge

© 2019 Paul Lamantia

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