Glenn Ligon: AMERICA

Exhibition works

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  Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Mirror, 2002. Coal dust, printing ink, glue, gesso, and graphite on canvas, 82 5/8 × 55 1/8 in. (209.9 × 147.6 cm). Collection of Mellody Hobson © Glenn Ligon

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  Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Am a Man), 1988. Oil and enamel on canvas. 40 × 25 in. (101.6 × 63.5 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon; photograph by Ronald Amstutz

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  Glenn Ligon, Hands, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on unstretched canvas. 82 × 144 in. (208.3 × 365.8 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon; photograph by Fredrik Nilsen

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  Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Sun (Version 2) #1, 2001. Silkscreen ink, oil stick, and gesso on canvas, 48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon

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  Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Self-Portrait, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on canvas, 48 × 40 in. (121.9 × 101.6 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon

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  Glenn Ligon (b.1960), Untitled (Speech/Crowd #2), 2000. Silkscreen ink, coal dust, ink, and glue on paper, 40 × 54 in. (101.6 × 137.2 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles; photograph by Ronald Amstutz

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  Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background), 1990. Oil stick, gesso, and graphite on wood. 80 × 30 in. (203.2 × 76.2 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton © Glenn Ligon; photograph courtesy of Glenn Ligon; photograph by Dennis Cowley

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  Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Untitled (Conclusion), 2004. Oil stick, synthetic polymer, oil, coal dust, glue, and graphite on canvas in two parts. 90 × 144 in. (228.6 × 365.8 cm). Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

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  Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Therapy #1, 2004. Oil stick, synthetic polymer, and graphite on canvas, 32 × 32 in. (81.3 × 81.3 cm). Collection of Shaun Caley Regen © Glenn Ligon

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  Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), Endless Column/Nu Nile (Yellow), 1985. Synthetic polymer, ink, and graphite on paper, 22 1/8 × 15 1/4 in. (56.2 × 38.7 cm). Collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon; image courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles; photograph by Ronald Amstutz

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  Installation view of Glenn Ligon: AMERICA (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 10–June 5, 2011). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins.

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  Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), No. 276 (Honeycomb), 1990. Oil, synthetic polymer, oil stick, and graphite on paper, 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau P.2010.187. © Glenn Ligon; photograph by Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art.com