99 Objects: Allan Doyle on Large Bather (quicksand) by Carroll Dunham Fri, July 17, 2015, 3 pm

99 Objects: Allan Doyle on Large Bather (quicksand) by Carroll Dunham

Fri, July 17, 2015
3 pm

Carroll Dunham (b. 1949). Large Bather (quicksand), 2006–2012. Polyurethane and pigment and pencil on linen, 96 1/8 × 119 1/4in. (244.2 × 302.9 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Director’s Discretionary Fund, the Painting and Sculpture Committee, and an anonymous donor 2014.40. © Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

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Allan Doyle, scholar, will address Large Bather (quicksand), 2006–12 by Carroll Dunham (b. 1949).

Named in honor of the Whitney’s new address, 99 Gansevoort Street, 99 Objects is a series of in-gallery programs focusing on individual works of art from the Museum’s collection on view in America Is Hard to See. Speakers include artists, writers, Whitney curators and educators, and an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Programs take place daily.

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