From: ctbishop@earthlink.net
In article <9c40075a-25df-4eaa-8752-dd3e21aded47@googlegroups.com>,
Will Dockery wrote:
> On Monday, August 12, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Barbara Mikkelson wrote:
> > Brydon Baker wrote:
> >
> > > I'm wondering if anyone knows when the "Pink Lady" was painted on the
> > > cliff above the tunnel in Malibu Canyon.
> >
> > It was painted the night of Oct 28 1966 by Lynne Wilson. There's a fine
> > writeup about this work of art in the Oct 27 1991 _Los Angeles Times_
> > (her twenty-fifth birthday was deemed important enough to celebrate).
> >
> > Barbara "tunnel vision" Mikkelson
> > --
> > Barbara Mikkelson | The true AFUer does not go .sigless, but
> > bhamel@fas.harvard.edu | instead demonstrates his savoir faire by
> > | including references to and quotes from
> > | other AFUers in his .sig. - snopes
>
> Lynne Westmore Bloom, avant garde artist, has passed away at age 81.
Heard on the local news. I was able to see the Pink Lady, and follow the
news of her at the time, and then see her erased.
>
> http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2017/01/lynne_westmore_bloom_81_p.php
> Lynne Westmore Bloom, an artist who died Friday night at home in Encinitas,
> is best known for the work of guerrilla public art she created in 1966. Then
> known as Lynne Seemayer, she left her Northridge home one October night,
> drove to Malibu Canyon and suspended herself from ropes on the rock cliff
> over the tunnel mouth facing the coast. She worked by herself all night, and
> when the first drivers came up the canyon after dawn, they saw the painted
> image of a bright pink, huge and happily naked woman clutching flowers on the
> rocks.
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charles
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