{"data":{"id":"24181","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":24181,"topgoose_id":7338,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":24181,"title":"No","display_artist_text":"Bruce Nauman","display_date":"1981","accession_number":"2005.19","dimensions":"Sheet (Sight): 29 1/4 × 42 1/4 in. (74.3 × 107.3 cm)","medium":"Lithograph","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":"from the portfolio Eight Lithographs to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art","edition":"AP 5/5 | Ed. 21, RTP, PP II, 3 GEL, NGA, C","publication_info":"Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.","description":"\u003cp\u003eBruce Nauman, \u003cem\u003eNo\u003c/em\u003e, 1981. Lithograph, sheet (Sight): 29 1/4 × 42 1/4 in. (74.3 × 107.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2005.19. © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eBruce Nauman created \u003ci\u003eNo\u003c/i\u003e and its counterpart, \u003ci\u003eNo-State,\u003c/i\u003e in 1981 at Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited), an artists' workshop and publisher of limited edition prints in Los Angeles, California. Here, the boldly printed \"No\" dominates the work—one of the few instances in which Nauman used a print to depict a single word. Describing works like this one, the artist stated, \"[in] certain cases, some of the word prints become objects. When that happens, they get very close to being signs you could hang on the wall—just like that exit sign over there.\" In composing the print, Nauman most likely used a large grease stick to draw the letters and lithographic crayons to create the lush, gestural strokes. \u003ci\u003eNo\u003c/i\u003e was made with two layers of ink—first a layer of black ink, then a layer of white ink. In \u003ci\u003eNo State\u003c/i\u003e, the printing was carried out in reverse order: an aluminum plate covered in white ink was initially printed onto the paper ground, followed by a lithographic stone with black ink.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Large abstract painted letters \"NO\" formed with energetic blue, black, and white brushstrokes.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:14:14.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:07.312-05:00","images":[{"id":107055,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/24181/2005_19_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"939","type":"artist"}]}}}}