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Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, (sculpture). Artist:  Prisbrey, Tressa, 1896-1988, sculptor. Title:  Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1950-1979. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Found objects including glass bottles, dolls, toothbrush, seashells, pencils, headlights, concrete. Dimensions:  Overall: approx. W. 45 ft. x D. 275 ft. Description:  Site-specific folk art installation consisting of thirteen buildings and nine structures of various sizes. The building walls are constructed of found glass bottles set in concrete, creating a stained glass effect when viewed from inside. The buildings, or houses, are connected by a mosaic walkway inlaid with various found objects including jewelry, scissors, guns, tools, combs, curlers, nails, nuts and bolts. The houses include: Cleopatra's Bedroom; the Round House; School House; Shell House; Rumpus Room (or Best Room); Cabana; Little Hut; Shot Glass House; the Leaning Tower of Bottle Village; and Pyramid Planter. Subject:  Figure -- Head Homage -- Cleopatra Architecture Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Simi Valley Site-specific Folk Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Preserve Bottle Village Committee, P. O. Box 1412, Simi Valley, California 93062 Located Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, 4595 Cochran Street, Simi Valley, California Remarks:  The installation was begun in the 1950s. Materials for the installation were gathered from the city dump. The property the installation is sited on was originally owned by Prisbrey and her husband. It was later sold to Morton H. Paster and was in turn owned by John Tynsky, Milton Katz, Phillips Enterprises, Publication Development and Preserve Bottle Village Committee. The installation is listed as a State of California Historic Landmark, as well as a County of Ventura and City of Simi Valley Cultural Landmark. IAS files contain copies of related articles from Los Angeles Times (1976, 1992); the Enterprise (1982, 1992, 1994); Enterprise Sun & News (1977); Folk Art Messenger (Summer 1992); Post-Advocate (Alhambra, CA) (1964); and Glass Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1983). IAS files contain copy of related excerpt from Kristan Lawson and Anneli S. Rufus' "America Off the Wall: the West Coast", New York: Wiley, 1989, pg. 62. IAS files contain copies of related publications from Preserve Bottle Village. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1994. Rosen, Seymour, "In Celebration of Ourselves", San Francisco: The San Francisco Examiner, 1979, pg. 156-161. Illustration:  Image on file. Rosen, Seymour, "In Celebration of Ourselves", San Francisco: The San Francisco Examiner, 1979, pg. 156-161. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS CA002068   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CA002068 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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