Glenn Ligon

How Can the Master's Tools Dismantle

1990

Black canvas with faint vertical handwritten question reading "How can the master's tools dismantle the master's house?".
Black canvas with faint vertical handwritten question reading "How can the master's tools dismantle the master's house?".

Glenn Ligon, How Can the Master's Tools Dismantle, 1990. Oil on canvas, overall: 56 1/8 × 44 3/16 in. (142.6 × 112.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.181. © Glenn Ligon

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Date
1990

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 56 1/8 × 44 3/16 in. (142.6 × 112.2 cm)

Accession number
2024.181

Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Glenn Ligon

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