Tim Rollins and K.O.S., The Whiteness of the Whale II (after Herman Melville), 1991. Acrylic and paper on linen, overall: 90 1/16 × 68 1/8 in. (228.8 × 173 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.213. © Tim Rollins. Courtesy of Tim Rollins and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
Not on view
Date
1991
Classification
Paintings
Medium
Acrylic and paper on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 90 1/16 × 68 1/8 in. (228.8 × 173 cm)
Accession number
2024.213
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Rights and reproductions
© Tim Rollins. Courtesy of Tim Rollins and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
Exhibitions
Installation photography
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Installation view of An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 18, 2017–). From left to right: Tim Rollins and K.O.S., The Whiteness of the Whale II (after Herman Melville), 1991; Carl Pope, Some of the Greatest Hits of the New York City Police Department: A Celebration of Meritorious Achievement in Community Service, 1994; Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds, Relocate Destroy, In Memory of Native Americans, In Memory of Jews, 1987. Photograph by Ron Amstutz