{"data":{"id":"2305","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2305,"topgoose_id":11400,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2305,"title":"Air Mail Stickers","display_artist_text":"Yayoi Kusama","display_date":"1962","accession_number":"64.34","dimensions":"Overall: 71 7/8 × 67 7/8 in. (182.6 × 172.4 cm)","medium":"Collaged paper on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of Mr. Hanford Yang","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eYayoi Kusama, \u003cem\u003eAir Mail Stickers\u003c/em\u003e, 1962. Collaged paper on canvas, overall: 71 7/8 × 67 7/8 in. (182.6 × 172.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. Hanford Yang 64.34. © Yayoi Kusama\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eMade a few short years after Yayoi Kusama moved from Japan to the United States, \u003ci\u003eAir Mail Stickers\u003c/i\u003e is a collage of the titular stickers, which read “VIA AIR MAIL.” Pasted onto paper in overlapping rows that both allow for readability and suggest the result of a formal, ordering principle, the red, white, and blue stickers produce the effect of accumulation from close-range and total coverage from afar. In this, \u003ci\u003eAir Mail Stickers\u003c/i\u003e relates to the “allover” compositions of Kusama’s early abstract paintings, which were comprised of either dense polka-dot fields or infinitely expanding net forms. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Dense repeating pattern of small orange and beige rectangular tiles forming a wavy grid.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":true,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:41:13.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:37.822-05:00","images":[{"id":94349,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2305/64_34_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"735","type":"artist"}]}}}}