Allen Jones, Miss America, 1965
Images of Allen Jones, Miss America

- Short Four cactuses and three images of a woman in cowgirl garb appear on a white background with blue sky.
- Long In the vertical image, the top fifth is blue, with the tops of four green cactuses extending up to the edge of the image. The cactuses grow from a white, wavy foreground like sand dunes. The whiteness extends to the bottom of the image. Next to one of the cactuses is a photo of the smiling cowgirl woman, standing with her hand on her hip. She wears a cowboy hat, red and white gingham top unbuttoned to her navel, yellow shorts, and brown cowboy boots while holding a small pistol in her other hand. The same photo is copied and manipulated twice beneath the original photo, with each copy slanting in opposite directions in a zig-zag pattern. In the bottom right corner, the back side of a postcard appears, as if pasted to the image.
Miss America, 1965
Lithograph on paper
23 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (60.6 × 50.6 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Edward Weiss, 1981.49.10
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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