Decorated treasure box with compartments containing a fake hand under mesh and a spider in a side drawer.

Lucas Samaras

Box #124

1988

Not on view

128 works in the collection
25 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/19231

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Wood box with rhinestones, dyed yarn, painted wire, painted wood, glass jars, acrylic, fibers, corroded metal, fabric, paperweight, pencils, color photographs, brass necklace, level, marbles, beads, and a tarantula

Dimensions
Sculpture (Closed): 8 × 13 × 9 1/2 in. (20.3 × 33 × 24.1 cm) Sculpture (Open, Variable): 15 3/4 × 23 × 18 in. (40 × 58.4 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
2007.198a-m

Credit line
Gift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz

API
artworks/19231

Exhibitions

Installation photography

Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: Lucas Samaras, Box #124, 1988; Robert Gober, Untitled, 1991; Kiki Smith, Familiars, 2001–02. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019