Island of Stairs

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Robert Smithson

Title

Island of Stairs

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.

1969

Medium

Graphite and brown crayon, with felt-tip pen, on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed lower left, in brown felt-tipped pen: “Island of Stairs / R. Smithson”

Dimensions

48.3 × 61 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family

Reference Number

2023.3520

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