Glenn Ligon

Untitled (Ralph Ellison)
1994

A weathered, black and white image of a text passage with some words faded and difficult to read, giving the impression of an old, worn document. The visible text begins with "I am an invisible man" and discusses the concept of invisibility in a metaphorical sense, not as a supernatural phenomenon.

A weathered, black and white image of a text passage with some words faded and difficult to read, giving the impression of an old, worn document. The visible text begins with "I am an invisible man" and discusses the concept of invisibility in a metaphorical sense, not as a supernatural phenomenon.

Not on view

Date
1994

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Oil stick on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 32 1/8 × 15 5/8in. (81.6 × 39.7 cm)

Accession number
94.140

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© Glenn Ligon
Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

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Glenn Ligon
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