John Baldessari

The First Room

1993

Handwritten notes and four small black-and-white photos labeled with qualities like realistic and sexually dormant.
Handwritten notes and four small black-and-white photos labeled with qualities like realistic and sexually dormant.

John Baldessari, The First Room, 1993. Photolithograph and lithograph, sheet: 21 × 17 1/8 in. (53.3 × 43.5 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 15 1/8 in. (19.4 × 38.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Eileen and Peter Norton 2000.93.1. © John Baldessari
Permission courtesy of the artist

Recto

Not on view

Date
1993

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photolithograph and lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 21 × 17 1/8 in. (53.3 × 43.5 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 15 1/8 in. (19.4 × 38.4 cm)

Accession number
2000.93.1

Edition
8/150

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

Credit line
Gift of Eileen and Peter Norton

Rights and reproductions
© John Baldessari
Permission courtesy of the artist

API
artworks/25856

Part of a series:
Six Rooms
6 works

Six small black-and-white photographs arranged in two rows with handwritten captions and a title.
Handwritten notes and four small black-and-white photos labeled with qualities like realistic and sexually dormant.
A white page with six small black-and-white photos arranged with handwritten captions describing different behaviors.
Six small black-and-white film stills with handwritten captions arranged on a mostly blank white page.
Collage of six small black-and-white photos arranged vertically and horizontally with handwritten captions.
A collage of six black-and-white photographs with handwritten captions about the third room and animal nature.



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