Jim Shaw

Primordial Toad

1990

Rectangular artwork with yellow foam edges and a rough brown surface studded with round impressions.
Rectangular artwork with yellow foam edges and a rough brown surface studded with round impressions.

Jim Shaw, Primordial Toad, 1990. Polyurethane foam and wood frame, overall: 18 1/2 × 15 × 3 3/4 in. (47 × 38.1 × 9.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2001.132

Recto

Not on view

Date
1990

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Polyurethane foam and wood frame

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

Accession number
2001.132

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

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/13827




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