Still Life

Photography and Media

September 5, 1978

Lucas Samaras
American, 1936-2024

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Lucas Samaras
Title: Still Life
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1978
Medium: Internal dye diffusion transfer print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, left center, in graphite: "9/5/78 / 6"; stamped verso, lower left, in blue ink: "E88253A37382C"
Dimensions: Image: 24 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 27.5 × 21.4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert and Gayle Greenhill
Reference Number: 1991.992

New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras,” November 13, 2003–February 8, 2004.

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