Gary Simmons

Green Chalkboard (Triple X)
1993

A green chalkboard with three hangman's nooses drawn in white chalk at the top and three pairs of crossed bones at the bottom, all against a backdrop of erased chalk smudges. The board is framed with a light wooden border.

A green chalkboard with three hangman's nooses drawn in white chalk at the top and three pairs of crossed bones at the bottom, all against a backdrop of erased chalk smudges. The board is framed with a light wooden border.

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Date
1993

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Chalk and chalkboard paint on composition board, with wood frame

Dimensions
Overall: 48 1/8 × 60 × 3 1/4in. (122.2 × 152.4 × 8.3 cm) Image: 44 5/8 × 56 5/8in. (113.3 × 143.8 cm)

Accession number
96.32a-b

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Gary Simmons
10 works in the collection

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