Joe Zucker

Merlyn's Lab

1977

A scholarly owl wearing glasses reads a book among plants and scientific glassware.
A scholarly owl wearing glasses reads a book among plants and scientific glassware.

Joe Zucker, Merlyn's Lab, 1977. Acrylic and cotton on canvas, overall: 96 × 96 in. (243.8 × 243.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President 78.16

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Not on view

Date
1977

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Acrylic and cotton on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 96 × 96 in. (243.8 × 243.8 cm)

Accession number
78.16

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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Part of a series:
Study for Merlyn's Lab
1 work

A scholarly owl wearing glasses reads a book among plants and scientific glassware.



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