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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Watercolors exhibit, Edward Kienholz, good fortune

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

Restoration of Good Fortune is an idea that originated from a discussion regarding the artist Edward Kienholz and his exhibit of Watercolors.

In 1969 Edward Kienholz’s exhibit Watercolors, was shown at the Eugenia Butler Gallery, in Los Angeles. For the exhibit, Kienholz “. . . contrived a system of currency, as he termed it, whereby the work was sold for the amount hand painted on the framed sheet of paper (which encompassed $1 to $1000 in systematic increments)” (1). In a retrospective of Kienholz’s work, this was written of his Watercolors, “. .

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