Men's Dormitory
Artschwager began his career as a furniture-maker in the 1950s and is known for his conceptual sculptures, covered with wood-grained formica and bright acrylic paint, that at first seem to mimic dressers, chairs, or cabinets. By the 1960s he had also begun to make paintings like this one in a gray, monotone acrylic that have black-and-white found photographs as their sources. The support for these paintings is Celotex, an insulating product used in construction, which provides the strange allover texture—like an artificially-produced brushwork.
Artwork Details
- Title: Men's Dormitory
- Artist: Richard Artschwager (American, Washington, D.C. 1923–2013 Albany, New York)
- Date: 1966
- Medium: Acrylic on Celotex
- Dimensions: 41 × 59 1/2 in. (104.1 × 151.1 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1989
- Object Number: 1989.81
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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