Jim Shaw

The True Image

1990

Comic-strip page showing characters reacting to a pizza and hallucinated band figures like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Comic-strip page showing characters reacting to a pizza and hallucinated band figures like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

Jim Shaw, The True Image, 1990. Screenprint on fabric, sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (42.9 × 35.2 cm) Image: 15 × 12 1/2 in. (38.1 × 31.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2001.129

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Date
1990

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint on fabric

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (42.9 × 35.2 cm) Image: 15 × 12 1/2 in. (38.1 × 31.8 cm)

Accession number
2001.129

Edition
4/4

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/13824




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