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Viva Tu Vida En Loisaida (plate, folio 26) from Your House Is Mine

Martin WongWW-1988-M007764

1988·One from an illustrated book with thirty screenprints bound in a lead, wood, and flexible plastic cover·sheet: 23 1/16 × 19 7/8" (58.5 × 50.5 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1988
Medium: One from an illustrated book with thirty screenprints bound in a lead, wood, and flexible plastic cover
Dimensions: sheet: 23 1/16 × 19 7/8" (58.5 × 50.5 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Martin Wong

Artist

Martin Wong

Painting

Martin Wong is an American painter known for large-scale, densely detailed canvases depicting urban facades, fire escapes, and street life in New York City. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, Wong rendered the texture and signage of tenement buildings and commercial storefronts with documentary precision and formal abstraction. His work emerged from the postwar period's engagement with vernacular architecture and the visual complexity of working-class neighborhoods.

Portland, OR, USA

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