Barbara Kruger

Untitled (Reach Out and Touch Someone)
1989

A vintage-looking image centered on a textured orange background with a red border. The image shows a black and white photograph of a person holding a mirror, in which another person's face is reflected. Below the photograph is the text "Reach out and touch someone." The bottom right corner of the orange background has a signature that reads "Barbara Kruger."
A vintage-looking image centered on a textured orange background with a red border. The image shows a black and white photograph of a person holding a mirror, in which another person's face is reflected. Below the photograph is the text "Reach out and touch someone." The bottom right corner of the orange background has a signature that reads "Barbara Kruger."

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Date
1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Two-color lithograph on wood veneer

Dimensions
Overall (sight): 25 7/8 × 19 1/4in. (65.7 × 48.9 cm) Image (sight): 24 3/8 × 17 5/8in. (61.9 × 44.8 cm)

Accession number
2010.118

Series
Brooklyn Academy of Music II Benefit Portfolio

Edition
4/75 | 16 APs

Publication
Printed by Derrière l'Étoile Studios; published by Brooklyn Academy of Music; published by Parasol Press, Ltd.

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer

Rights and reproductions
© Barbara Kruger
Courtesy, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

API
artworks/37356

Barbara Kruger
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