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Helen Betts | all galleries >> Rediscovering Home >> Washington Rediscovered: Year 4 >> Celebrating American Craft: The Renwick Gallery > ‘Game Fish,’ Larry Fuente, 1988 (1/3)
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09-Feb-2020

‘Game Fish,’ Larry Fuente, 1988 (1/3)

One of the Renwick Gallery's most beloved treasures, “Game Fish” whimsically captures the artist's love of surface ornamentation. Since the late 1960s, Larry Fuente has delighted in covering readily identifiable forms with beads, plastic baubles, buttons, and mass-produced items of no intrinsic value, transforming the mundane into unique objects. Size is no deterrent to Fuente, who once spent five years coating a 1960 Cadillac sedan with one million brightly colored ornaments.

“Game Fish” is made of fiberglass, black auto-body type epoxy resin, polyurethane resin, plywood, plastic found objects including beads, buttons, poker chips, badminton birdies, ping pong balls, rhinestones, coins, dice, plastic figurines, combs and miniature pinball games.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Very first patient at City Wildlife, posted earlier:


Nikon Z 7 ,Nikkor Z 24-70 f2.8 S
1/125s f/5.6 at 25.0mm iso5000 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Zoltán Balogh26-Feb-2020 06:24
Fantastic work of art! V
Jola Dziubinska18-Feb-2020 23:19
Amazing! V.
Dennis Hoyne18-Feb-2020 03:35
I love this kind of artwork!
Julie Oldfield18-Feb-2020 01:45
That is wild. V
larose forest photos17-Feb-2020 22:11
This is fabulous! A really ingenious, colourful and eye-catching work of art, very nicely shot by you. V
Charlene Ambrose17-Feb-2020 20:51
Interesting artwork. Very pretty effect! V
Nick Paoni17-Feb-2020 20:35
This is so unusual and and neat. Definitely a trophy fish!
hayl17-Feb-2020 20:30
What a fantastic creation. You could spend so much time just looking.
Tom Munson17-Feb-2020 19:47
This is amazing. What a talented person.
Nestor Derkach17-Feb-2020 17:49
Helen this is an amazing photograph sharpness is beyond excellent.
The colors involved is splendid and the list of items you mentioned used
for this work of art is large and maybe some you did not mention.
The artist Larry Fuente is very talented.
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Industrial Heritage17-Feb-2020 17:33
This is so beautiful and I like the sdow too.
Jim Coffman17-Feb-2020 17:01
wow, that is incredible work. Well captured, Helen.