Paul McCarthy

Experimental Dancer

1975

Nude male model striking varied poses on a studio stage captured in multiple contact frames.

Not on view

Date
1975

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Nine gelatin silver prints mounted on board

Dimensions
Overall: 24 × 29 13/16 in. (61 × 75.7 cm) Sheet (each): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image (each): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Mount (board): 27 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 1/8 in. (69.9 × 85.1 × 0.3 cm)

Accession number
2001.138.7

Edition
Vintage

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

Rights and reproductions
© Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

API
artworks/15639

Part of a series:
Combination Photographs
13 works

Contact sheet showing black-and-white studio portraits of a seated couple and a standing photographer.

Two people lean over a seated person, appearing to examine or treat them.

Collage of multiple black-and-white and red-tinted photos showing a shirtless performer and band rehearsing.

A series of black-and-white framed photographs showing repeated poses of a shirtless man on a gray wall.

Man making expressive gestures while his large shadow appears across multiple black-and-white photobooth frames.

Multiple black-and-white photographs showing people arranging and filling stacked tires with fluffy material in a room.

Exhibitions

America Is Hard to See

May 1–Sept 27, 2015
Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement
Three Installations, Two Films

June 26–Oct 12, 2008
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

June 29–Sept 3, 2006
De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (2nd floor–Oct 2002)

Oct 10, 2002–Mar 2, 2003

Paul McCarthy
41 works in the collection, 13 exhibitions

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Paul McCarthy

Experimental Dancer

1975

Exhibitions

Paul McCarthy 41 works in the collection, 13 exhibitions

Paul McCarthy
41 works in the collection, 13 exhibitions