A former motorcycle racer and stuntman, he helped put Los Angeles on the art world map with paintings inspired by the West Coast’s surf and car culture.
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In the fall of 1963, the bucolic, tradition-bound city of Pasadena became unlikely host to the most radical artist of the 20th century: Marcel Duchamp.