Title
Purple Monochromatical Monomaniacal Merry-Go-Round.
Coverage
Olaf (b. 1940)
Date
1990
Subject
Oil-marbled paper; artists’ oil paint, chemicals, solvents, and paint additives on machine-made paper
Description
Olaf, active 1969–75, is a self-taught marbler living in Berkeley, California. His patterns, which resemble microscopic organisms, were made with oil-based paints and solvents. Olaf and John Coventry marbled together outdoors in Berkeley in a tank made from the inverted roof of a Volkswagen bus. Although Olaf did not marble commercially, he contributed to the field artistically and as an organizer of the Second International Marblers’ Gathering, held in San Francisco, in 1992.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Susan Pogány