James Welling

Untitled

1981

Dark draped fabric forming soft folds framed by rough black brushstrokes on a light background.

Dark draped fabric forming soft folds framed by rough black brushstrokes on a light background.

Not on view

Date
1981

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Platinum palladium print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 11 in. (35.9 × 27.9 cm) Image: 9 5/8 × 7 1/2 in. (24.4 × 19.1 cm)

Accession number
2024.54.11

Edition
6/25

Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/38634

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

Small animal bones arranged on a wooden surface to spell the word "LEG".

Two black-and-white portraits show a woman standing with her back turned and text columns beside.

A bearded man with closed eyes has his head gently cradled by another person's hands.

Large translucent red-orange sheet with curved edge against a pale background.

A dense field of stars and faint nebulae shown within a dark rectangular print framed by a beige mat.

Young person with curly hair and a dirt-smeared face looking directly at the camera.

Bright poppy flowers cluster against a dark background beside a golden panel with distorted mask reflections.

Factory workers sew garments while a manager gestures and shows fabric to a seated woman.

An older man gestures at a teenage boy adjusting his shirt while a woman watches by the window.

Gray poster with centered white text quoting a dream about finding a way to survive and feeling joy.

James Welling
49 works in the collection, 5 exhibitions

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