Richard Tuttle

"A"
1991

A minimalist artwork featuring a large white canvas with a small, centrally placed, colorful paper butterfly. The butterfly appears to have a pattern of yellow and red stripes on its wings. The vast white space emphasizes the isolation and small scale of the butterfly.
A minimalist artwork featuring a large white canvas with a small, centrally placed, colorful paper butterfly. The butterfly appears to have a pattern of yellow and red stripes on its wings. The vast white space emphasizes the isolation and small scale of the butterfly.

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Date
1991

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 36 3/8in. (31.8 × 92.4 cm)

Accession number
2001.336.1

Edition
27/45

Publication
Printed by Derrière l'Étoile Studios; published by Brooke Alexander Editions

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Marc Schwartz

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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artworks/15270

Part of a series:
Perceived Obstacles
6 works

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