John Baldessari

The Second Room

1993

Six small black-and-white film stills with handwritten captions arranged on a mostly blank white page.
Six small black-and-white film stills with handwritten captions arranged on a mostly blank white page.

John Baldessari, The Second Room, 1993. Photolithograph and lithograph, sheet: 21 × 17 1/8 in. (53.3 × 43.5 cm) Image: 15 1/2 × 8 15/16 in. (39.4 × 22.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Eileen and Peter Norton 2000.93.2. © 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: 15 1/2 × 8 15/16 in. (39.4 × 22.7 cm)

Accession number
2000.93.2

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/25857

Part of a series:
Six Rooms
6 works

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