Lucas Samaras

March 6, 1983 Panorama
1983

A panoramic artwork depicting a sequence of distorted and fragmented scenes across various settings, including a kitchen with pots and dishes, a man holding a guitar, a collection of paintbrushes and art supplies, and figures that appear to be in a museum with sculptures and paintings, all overlaid with a wavy, translucent filter that gives the impression of viewing through textured glass or water.

A panoramic artwork depicting a sequence of distorted and fragmented scenes across various settings, including a kitchen with pots and dishes, a man holding a guitar, a collection of paintbrushes and art supplies, and figures that appear to be in a museum with sculptures and paintings, all overlaid with a wavy, translucent filter that gives the impression of viewing through textured glass or water.

Not on view

Date
1983

Classification
Photographs

Medium
90 dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid)

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/8 × 81in. (21.3 × 205.7 cm) Image: 7 3/8 × 79 3/4in. (18.7 × 202.6 cm)

Accession number
84.9

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/4898

Exhibitions

Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras

Nov 12, 2003–Feb 7, 2004

Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection

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