Whitney Biennial 1979

Installation photography

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Susan Rothenberg, Redhead (1978); Susan Rothenberg, Blue Frontal (1978); Jo Zucker, The Ghostly Spectre of the Slaver Trinidad rises among the wrecks and reefs off Madagascar on a moonlit night during July of 1834. Notice Saint Elmo’s fire on the spars and mastheads… (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Barbara Schwartz, Totapantia (1978); Barbara Schwartz, Affinbandi XXVIII (1978); Ralph Humphrey, #9 (1978); Ralph Humphrey, #3 (1977). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Robert Graham, Lise I (1977); Robert Graham, Painted Fragments (1978); Chuck Close, Mark/Pastel (1977); Chuck Close, Nate/Pastel (1977–78); Chuck Close, Self-Portrait (1977); Roy Lichtenstein, Figures with Sunset (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Billy Al Bengston, Chocladkranasar Draculas (1977); Billy Al Bengston, Notklickar Draculas (1978); Roger Brown, The Assassination of Aldo Moro and The Terror of the Red Brigade (1978); Roger Brown, Busy City Porno Strip (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Jennifer Bartlett, Summer at Dawn, Noon and Dusk (1978); Patrick Hogan, Untitled (1978); Patrick Hogan, Untitled (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Mary Frank, Woman (1978); Mary Frank, Standing Woman (1978); Gregory Gillespie, Self Portrait (1978); Gregory Gillespie, Self-Portrait in Studio (1976–77). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Jackie Ferrera, A190 Trid (1978), sugar pine; Jackie Ferrera, A190 Trid (1978), drawing; Jackie Ferrera, A196 Tower Beck (1979), drawing; Jackie Ferrera, A196 Tower Beck, sugar pine; Ellsworth Kelly, White Triangle with Black (1936); Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Ellsworth Kelly, White Triangle with Black (1976–77); Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Alex Katz, Place (1977); Alex Katz, Morning Coffee (1977). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Alex Katz, Morning Coffee (1977); Robert Arneson, Splat (1978); Robert Arneson, Captain Ace (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Robert Arneson, Splat (1978); Robert Arneson, Captain Ace (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Jennifer Bartlett, Swimmer at Dawn, Noon and Dusk (1978); Elizabeth Murray, Children’s Meeting (1978); Frank Stella, New Caledonian Lorikeet (1977); Frank Stella, Bula-Chasm (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Frank Stella, New Caledonian Lorikeet (1977); Frank Stella, Bula-Chasm (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Joyce Kozloff, Mad Russian Blanket (1977); Joyce Kozloff, Longing (1977); Kim MacConnel, Baton Rouge (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Kim MacConnel, Baton Rouge (1978); Kim MacConnel, Factory Brocade (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: William Beckley, Deidre’s Lip (1978); Donald Sultan, April 1978 (1978); Philip Guston, Friend to M.F. (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Edda Renouf, Visible Sounds #1 (1978); Edda Renouf, New York Sound Drawing; Jackie Winsor, Glass Piece; Mel Bochner, Aliquant Reciprocol (1979). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Alice Aycock, The Happy Birthday Coronation Piece (1978); Donna Dennis, Two Stories with a Porch (For Robert Cobuzio) (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). Jonathan Borofsky, I dreamed a young man in a wheel chair, was making beautiful in drawings on glass at 2,520,523 (1978–79). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). Rodney Ripps, Rosette (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Deborah Butterfield, Installation Horse #8 (1978); Deborah Butterfield, Resting Horse (1977). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: William Beckley, The living Room (1977); William Beckley, Deidre’s Lip (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Mel Bochner, Aliquant Reciprocal (1979); Dorothea Rockburne, Arena IV (1978); Dorothea Rockburne, Arena V (1978); Dorothea Rockburne, Arena VII (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). Michael Singer, First Gate Ritual Series, 10/78 (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Christopher Wilmarth, Street Leaf #3 (1977); Christopher Wilmarth, Gnomon’s Parade (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Richard Serra, Toll (1978–79); Jackie Winsor, Glass Piece (1978–79). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Alexis Smith, Beauty and the Beast (1977); Alexis Smith, The Silver Screen. Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Dennis Evans, Non-Casual procedures for a Universal System of Transformation (1978); Dennis Evans, Untitled (1978); Dennis Evans, Theoretical Diagram for a Structural Approach to a Semaphoric Field Neutralization (1978); Dennis Evans, Box for Instruments (1978). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Jennifer Bartlett, Sunrise, Sunset II/Water at Sunset; Jennifer Bartlett, Swimmers at Sunrise (1979). Photograph by Roy Elkind

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  Installation view of the 1979 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 6–April 8, 1979). From left to right: Jody Pinto, Tarred and Feather Structure (1979); Martin Puryear, M. Bastion Bouleversé (1978–79). Photograph by Roy Elkind