Lorna Simpson

Partitions & Time

1991

A woman in a dark dress stands with her back to the camera, shown twice; numbers and words are listed beside her.

A woman in a dark dress stands with her back to the camera, shown twice; numbers and words are listed beside her.

Not on view

Date
1991

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 × 24 1/16in. (50.8 × 61.1 cm) Image (Irregular): 10 7/8 × 21 7/8in. (27.6 × 55.6 cm)

Accession number
2024.54.9

Edition
Edition no. 6/25

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

Rights and reproductions
© Lorna Simpson

API
artworks/37959

Part of a series:
"In a dream ..."
12 works

Small bones arranged on a wooden surface to spell out the word "EGO" vertically.

A woman in a dark dress stands with her back to the camera, shown twice; numbers and words are listed beside her.

A person with long hair and a beard has their eyes closed while another person gently holds their head.

A close-up view of a red, translucent surface with smooth and uneven textures against a white background.

A dark sky filled with many small stars, with a few brighter spots scattered throughout.

A person with curly hair and a face covered in dark dirt looks directly at the camera, slightly smiling.

Six colorful poppy flowers stand beside a yellow background with two dramatic theater mask faces and light rays.

Several people work at sewing machines in a busy garment factory, with one person standing and gesturing to another.

Three people stand in a sunlit room, talking near a window and a table stacked with papers and magazines.

Gray canvas with white text: "IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY."

Lorna Simpson
24 works in the collection, 15 exhibitions

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