David Wojnarowicz

Untitled

1989

Large transport aircraft releasing paratroopers with multiple parachutes descending over dark terrain.
Large transport aircraft releasing paratroopers with multiple parachutes descending over dark terrain.

David Wojnarowicz, Untitled, 1989. Gelatin silver print, overall: 15 15/16 × 19 13/16 in. (40.5 × 50.3 cm) Image: 14 7/8 × 17 1/2 in. (37.8 × 44.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. and the Richard and Dorothy Rodgers Fund 92.75.3. © The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1989

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Overall: 15 15/16 × 19 13/16 in. (40.5 × 50.3 cm) Image: 14 7/8 × 17 1/2 in. (37.8 × 44.5 cm)

Accession number
92.75.3

Edition
12/12

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. and the Richard and Dorothy Rodgers Fund

Rights and reproductions
© The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

API
artworks/8176

Part of a series:
Sex Series
8 works

Aerial view of a river with two suspension bridges and a sculpted figure in a circular inset.
Black-and-white collage with six circular photo cutouts surrounding blocks of printed text.
Large transport aircraft releasing paratroopers with multiple parachutes descending over dark terrain.
Dense black-and-white swamp with tall cypress trunks and a small circular inset showing a seated person.
A Santa Fe locomotive numbered 304 travels around a curved track through hilly terrain.
A large passenger ship plows through choppy waters under a bright, textured full moon.
A high-contrast collage of a city bridge with circular inset photos and a tangled plane wreck.
A house and tall water tower under a dark sky with a circular moon showing ghostly faces.



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