Jim Shaw

Primordial Toad
1990

Abstract artwork resembling baked goods with a textured brown center and puffy beige edges on a canvas.

Abstract artwork resembling baked goods with a textured brown center and puffy beige edges on a canvas.

Not on view

Date
1990

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Polyurethane foam and wood frame

Dimensions
Overall: 18 1/2 × 15 × 3 3/4in. (47 × 38.1 × 9.5 cm)

Accession number
2001.132

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/13827

Exhibitions

Ellen Harvey: A Whitney for the Whitney at Altria

Jan 22–Apr 3, 2003
Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Pollock to Today

Dec 7, 2000–Feb 10, 2002

Jim Shaw
11 works in the collection

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