Men's Dormitory

Richard Artschwager

1966 · Acrylic on cardboard · Modern and Contemporary Art

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.

Artist

Richard Artschwager

Date

1966

Medium

Acrylic on cardboard

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

George A. Hearn Fund, 1989