Billy Al Bengston’s ‘Lumberjack Luncheon.’ Bottom: Recently, “Lumberjack Luncheon” became performance art as wife Wendy Al interacted with pooch Foxy.

Credit: Diane Haithman. Bengston’s ‘Lumberjack Luncheon,’ with Wendy Al and Foxy. Credit: Katrina Mohn/Samuel Freeman Gallery. ‘April Water Color,’ 1986. Credit: Billy Al Bengston ...

Billy Al Bengston, the artist who helped establish L.A. Cool School at the Ferus Gallery through his geometric brand of West Coast, custom car-culture inspired Pop art, has died. He was 88.

Billy Al Bengston, a Kansas-born California painter who drew inspiration from the car and surf culture of midcentury Los Angeles, and was part of a 1960s movement, known as LA Cool School, that ...

Billy Al Bengston. Billy Al Bengston mail art to unidentified recipients, 1973. Billy Al Bengston papers, circa 1940s-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Use Note Current ...

Billy Al Bengston, the influential painter who was a key figure in the heady, freewheeling Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s, died of natural causes on Saturday, October 8 at his home in Venice ...

The papers of southern California Pop artist Billy Al Bengston measure 10.4 linear feet and date from circa 1940s to 1989, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960 to 1988. The collection ...