Glenn Ligon

No. 417 (Sweetheart)

1988

Pink painted panel with stenciled text about a sweetheart, dreams, and a warning about misunderstanding.
Pink painted panel with stenciled text about a sweetheart, dreams, and a warning about misunderstanding.

Glenn Ligon, No. 417 (Sweetheart), 1988. Oil, acrylic, oil stick, and graphite on paper, sheet (Sight, Irregular): 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.176. © Glenn Ligon

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Date
1988

Classification
Drawings

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

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

Accession number
2024.176

Series
Dreambook

Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Glenn Ligon

API
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