Martha Wilson

Posturing: Drag
1972/1996

A framed photograph on a wall depicting a person with a mustache and short curly hair, dressed in a black blazer, posing with one arm crossed over their chest and the other resting on it. To the right of the photograph is a white card with typewritten text and a signature, explaining the concept of "posturing" in drag to express the fluidity of gender roles.

A framed photograph on a wall depicting a person with a mustache and short curly hair, dressed in a black blazer, posing with one arm crossed over their chest and the other resting on it. To the right of the photograph is a white card with typewritten text and a signature, explaining the concept of "posturing" in drag to express the fluidity of gender roles.

Not on view

Date
1972/1996

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print in vintage frame (a); typewriter ink and pen and ink on card (b)

Dimensions
See individual components

Accession number
2016.49a-b

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund

Rights and reproductions
© Martha Wilson

API
artworks/48342

Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017

Martha Wilson
1 work in the collection

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