Houston Street

Martin Wong · 1986

Here we have Houston Street — a painting by the American artist Martin Wong, nineteen eighty-six. Acrylic, a pigment suspended in plastic emulsion that dries in minutes and stays flexible afterwards. It is one of the largest things in this museum — about 34 times the area of a typical work here. You can pick out the door.

Medium Acrylic on canvas · Dimensions 8 x 13' (243.8 × 396.2 cm) · Credit Gift of Steven Johnson and Walter Sudol

Hanging beside it in Gallery 202: Los Angeles, California

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Fresh Widow