Figure made from sticks and cans holding a paintbrush and paint can while standing on a bottle.

Richard Shaw

Mike Goes Back to T.

1980

Not on view

1 work in the collection
3 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/720

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Glazed porcelain with overglaze transfers

Dimensions
Overall: 41 3/8 × 14 × 16 5/8 in. (105.1 × 35.6 × 42.2 cm)

Accession number
81.4

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome Purchase Fund

API
artworks/720

Exhibitions

Installation photography

Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: David James Gilhooly, Merfrog and Her Pet Fish, 1976; Arlene Shechet, Y Wabi N, 2007; Richard Shaw, Mike Goes Back to T., 1980; Kenneth Price, Nail Polish and Lipstick, 1980; Robert Arneson, Whistling in the Dark, 1976. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: David James Gilhooly, Merfrog and Her Pet Fish, 1976; Arlene Shechet, Y Wabi N, 2007; Richard Shaw, Mike Goes Back to T., 1980; Kenneth Price, Nail Polish and Lipstick, 1980; Robert Arneson, Whistling in the Dark, 1976; Paul McCarthy, Walt Paul Store, WS, Snow White and Dopey, 2013; Paul McCarthy, Walt Paul Store, WS, Snow White, 2013; Paul McCarthy, Walt Paul Store, WS, Snow White, 2013; Katy Schimert, The Five Senses, 1997; Betty Woodman, Still Life Vase #11, 1990; Arlene Shechet, A Night Out, 2011. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–January 2021). From left to right: Ron Nagle, Oogakadoozie, 1999; Robert Arneson, Whistling in the Dark, 1976; Richard Shaw, Mike Goes Back to T., 1980; David James Gilhooly, Merfrog and Her Pet Fish, 1976; Arlene Shechet, Y Wabi N, 2007; Sterling Ruby, Basin Theology/The Pipe, 2013; Betty Woodman, Still Life Vase #11, 1990; Paul McCarthy, Walt Paul Store, WS, Snow White, 2013; Paul McCarthy, Walt Paul Store, WS, Snow White and Dopey, 2013; Paul McCarthy, Walt Paul Store, WS, Snow White, 2013; Katy Schimert, The Five Senses, 1997. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019