Lucas Samaras

Box #3
1962–1963

A contemporary art piece mounted on a white wall, consisting of a stack of metallic brushes with bristles on top and a cascade of tangled, straw-like fibers hanging down from it.

A contemporary art piece mounted on a white wall, consisting of a stack of metallic brushes with bristles on top and a cascade of tangled, straw-like fibers hanging down from it.

Not on view

Date
1962–1963

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Wood box with straight pins, rope, wire, taxidermied bird and metal hardware

Dimensions
Overall (Approximate): 28 3/4 × 10 5/8 × 10in. (73 × 27 × 25.4 cm)

Accession number
66.36

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/1295

Exhibitions

De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (2nd floor–Oct 2002)

Oct 9, 2002–Mar 1, 2003

Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection

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