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Lucas Samaras

1963 · Gelatin silver print and pins on Masonite · Modern and Contemporary Art

Following a stint at New York’s Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, Samaras employed the promotional headshots he had made there for his art. The pins that impale this example had personal significance for the artist, whose cousin, a dressmaker, and father, a furrier, used pins and nails in their respective trades.

Artist

Lucas Samaras

Date

1963

Medium

Gelatin silver print and pins on Masonite

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Arnold and Milly Glimcher, 1986