James Welling

Untitled

1981

Dark, softly folded fabric draped with gentle creases, surrounded by a rough black painted border.

Dark, softly folded fabric draped with gentle creases, surrounded by a rough black painted border.

Not on view

Date
1981

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Platinum palladium print

Dimensions
Image: 10 × 8in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 14 × 11in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)

Accession number
2024.54.11

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 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 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."

James Welling
49 works in the collection, 4 exhibitions

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