Al Taylor
Bondage Duck #2

Artist Al Taylor (American, 1948–1999)American, 1948–1999

CultureAmerican

Titles

Bondage Duck #2

Date1998

Made inUnited States

MediumFoamed plastic fishing floats, rubber bands, latex coating, bamboo garden stake, and sand-filled coffee can with plastic lid

Dimensions18 × 4 1/16 × 4 1/16 in. (45.7 × 10.3 × 10.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Eric and Karen Pulaski Philanthropic Fund of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation and by Bettie Cartwright and Colin Kennedy

Object number2002.3444

Not on view

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

SCULPTURE

ProvenanceEstate of the artist; [Gagosian Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.

"The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 3–May 5, 2013.

"Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At?," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 1, 2017–March 30, 2018.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in ink on the underside:
"BONDAGE / DUCK #2 / 1998"
"AT1998.4"

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