Glenn Ligon

No. 291 (Language)
1988

A textured dark painting with faded red and orange text that reads: "LANGUAGE To dream that you are learning or speaking a foreign language denotes that you will take a pleasant trip across the open country 291 It also denotes you will meet a dangerous enemy." The background appears to be layered with different shades of black and brown, giving it an aged and weathered look.

A textured dark painting with faded red and orange text that reads: "LANGUAGE To dream that you are learning or speaking a foreign language denotes that you will take a pleasant trip across the open country 291 It also denotes you will meet a dangerous enemy." The background appears to be layered with different shades of black and brown, giving it an aged and weathered look.

Not on view

Date
1988

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Oil, acrylic, oil stick, and graphite on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight, Irregular): 30 × 22 1/4in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)

Accession number
2024.173

Series
Dreambook

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Glenn Ligon

API
artworks/37136

Exhibitions

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA

Mar 10–June 5, 2011

Glenn Ligon
40 works in the collection

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