Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo

Untitled
1958

A monochromatic, textured image depicting a person sitting on a chair, possibly playing a stringed instrument like a cello or double bass, with the focus on the musician's back and the instrument's body. The image has a grainy, crosshatched effect, giving it an etched or screen-printed appearance.
A monochromatic, textured image depicting a person sitting on a chair, possibly playing a stringed instrument like a cello or double bass, with the focus on the musician's back and the instrument's body. The image has a grainy, crosshatched effect, giving it an etched or screen-printed appearance.

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Date
1958

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on board

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 4 7/16in. (11.9 × 11.3 cm) Image: 4 11/16 × 4 7/16in. (11.9 × 11.3 cm) Mount (board): 4 11/16 × 4 7/16 × 1/16in. (11.9 × 11.3 × 0.2 cm)

Accession number
96.243.4

Series
Portraits of Jay DeFeo

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Lannan Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Wallace Berman
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Jay DeFeo
31 works in the collection

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