{"data":{"id":"2364","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2364,"topgoose_id":13423,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2364,"title":"untitled (for Robert, with fond regards) 2","display_artist_text":"Dan Flavin","display_date":"1977","accession_number":"78.57","dimensions":"Overall: 96 3/16 × 96 × 9 in. (244.3 × 243.8 × 22.9 cm)","medium":"Pink, yellow, and red fluorescent lights","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President, the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc., by exchange, and gift of Peter M. Brant, by exchange","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Ed. 3","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDan Flavin, \u003cem\u003euntitled (for Robert, with fond regards) 2\u003c/em\u003e, 1977. Pink, yellow, and red fluorescent lights, overall: 96 3/16 × 96 × 9 in. (244.3 × 243.8 × 22.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President, the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc., by exchange, and gift of Peter M. Brant, by exchange 78.57. © Estate of Dan Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eBy the mid-1970s, Dan Flavin was working on a larger scale, which heightened the luminosity of his sculptures. \u003ci\u003eUntitled\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(for Robert, with fond regards)\u003c/i\u003e is one of Flavin’s most elaborate corner grid configurations from this period. This 8-by-8-foot example was fabricated in an edition of three (a group of 4-by-4-foot versions have also been made). Flavin described the notable characteristics of the work, citing its “rich contrast, front over rear, and an optical interplay, pink on yellow backgrounded by the red, all modified by reflected color mixes and shadows of the grid structure itself.” “As an ensemble,” he remarked, “this intense fluorescent light use/abuse seems to be rare in my production.” As is common in Flavin’s practice, the work is dedicated to a friend: Robert Skolnick, the artist’s former long-time assistant, who had previously been an art handler at the Whitney.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Fluorescent tubes arranged horizontally on a wall with alternating white and yellow lights.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:12:59.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:52.796-05:00","images":[{"id":94005,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2364/78_57_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"438","type":"artist"}]}}}}