A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art

Jan 18–Mar 29, 2001

Collage with a boy looking at a globe, a couple embracing, text "ENJOY LIFE," and a quote about imagination over knowledge.
Collage with a boy looking at a globe, a couple embracing, text "ENJOY LIFE," and a quote about imagination over knowledge.

Alexis Smith, Boy's Life, 1989. Photolithograph and collage, sheet: 30 1/16 × 44 9/16 in. (76.4 × 113.2 cm) Image: 25 1/2 × 35 in. (64.8 × 88.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 92.36

A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art was curated by Shamim M. Momin.

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