Lucas Samaras

Skull & Milky Way
1966

A framed artwork depicting a cosmic scene with a large, dark, skull-like shape at the center surrounded by a field of white speckles resembling stars against a black background. The skull shape is detailed with white outlines that give it a nebulous, ethereal appearance.

A framed artwork depicting a cosmic scene with a large, dark, skull-like shape at the center surrounded by a field of white speckles resembling stars against a black background. The skull shape is detailed with white outlines that give it a nebulous, ethereal appearance.

Not on view

Date
1966

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print from X-ray negative, pins, and photolithograph

Dimensions
Mount (board): 29 × 25 1/4 × 3 3/4in. (73.7 × 64.1 × 9.5 cm)

Accession number
91.34.6

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Howard and Jean Lipman

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/7551

Exhibitions

Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol

Jan 16–May 17, 2009
Photography and the Self:
The Legacy of F. Holland Day

Dec 20, 2006–Mar 4, 2007
Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras

Nov 12, 2003–Feb 7, 2004
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002

Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection

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