Dan Basen

Sardine Cans
1964

A wall-mounted artwork featuring a grid of nine gold-colored bread loaves encased in clear plastic compartments, with a single loaf dangling from a chain at the bottom.

A wall-mounted artwork featuring a grid of nine gold-colored bread loaves encased in clear plastic compartments, with a single loaf dangling from a chain at the bottom.

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Date
1964

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Sardine cans, wood, glass, chain and fiber-tipped pen

Dimensions
Overall: 40 1/4 × 13 5/8 × 2 1/8in. (102.2 × 34.6 × 5.4 cm)

Accession number
66.14

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Dan Basen
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