The Conventioneer

About the Artwork

Title The Conventioneer

Artwork Date 1987

Artist Tom Bills

Life Dates born 1948

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Steel, lead

Dimensions Overall: 25 × 29 × 9 1/2 inches, 1420 pounds (63.5 × 73.7 × 24.1 cm, 644.1 kg)

Classification Sculpture

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Friends of Modern Art, the Andrew L. and Gayle Shaw Camden Contemporary and Decorative Arts Fund, Mary M. Denison, Suzy and Burton Farbman, Dede and Oscar Feldman, Kempf Hogan, Robert Jacobs, Lila and Gilbert Silverman, Andronike Tsagaris and John Hilberry, Trudy and Henry Wineman II, Lillian Shaye-Hirsch and Bernard Hirsch, Marjorie and Maxwell Josepy, and Sidney and Diane Lutz

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1990.22

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