Mary Frank

Swimmer
1978

A wooden sculpture resembling a fragmented human figure lies on a grey floor against a grey background. The sculpture is elongated and abstract, with discernible body parts such as a head, arms, and legs, but arranged in a disjointed fashion.
A wooden sculpture resembling a fragmented human figure lies on a grey floor against a grey background. The sculpture is elongated and abstract, with discernible body parts such as a head, arms, and legs, but arranged in a disjointed fashion.

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Date
1978

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Earthenware

Dimensions
Overall: 16 3/8 × 94 × 32in. (41.6 × 238.8 × 81.3 cm)

Accession number
79.31a-g

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Mrs. Robert M. Benjamin, Mrs. Oscar Kolin and Mrs. Nicholas Millhouse

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Mary Frank
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