A steaming coffee cup and saucer with blurred warm orange and green light.

Bruce Nauman

Coffee Spilled Because the Cup Was Too Hot

1966–1967, printed 1970

Not on view

48 works in the collection
24 exhibitions

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Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 7/16 in. (49.8 × 59.5 cm) Image: 19 1/2 × 23 7/16 in. (49.5 × 59.5 cm)

Accession number
70.50.2

Edition
7/8

Credit line
Purchase

Rights and reproductions
© Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/5707

Part of a series:
Eleven Color Photographs
11 works

A person wipes bright red letters spelling HOT with a cloth beside an open paint can.

A person in an orange knit sweater stands with their arms tied behind them.

A steaming orange cup with a small spoon stirring and wisps of steam rising above.

A white coffee cup with dark liquid casts a shadow across a colorful orange and blue surface.

Six auger drill bits of increasing size standing upright in a wood block with shavings.

A man in a red checkered shirt paints white ceramic shapes with blue paint at a table.

Two feet covered in thick clay-like mud under red and green colored lighting.

Three hands stacked together with two arms reaching upward in a supportive gesture.

Two hands gently clasp another person's feet reflected in a green-tinted mirror.

A shirtless man leans back and spits a stream of water upward against a black background.

Exhibitions