Contact sheet showing black-and-white studio portraits of a seated couple and a standing photographer.

Photographs

San Francisco, Shithole of the Universe

1980

Medium
Six gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
Overall: 10 × 48 in. (25.4 × 121.9 cm) Frame: 14 1/8 × 52 × 1 1/2 in. (35.9 × 132.1 × 3.8 cm)
Accession number
2001.138.12
Acquired
2001
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone
Reproduction credit
© Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Edition
Vintage
Department
collection

About this work

Paul McCarthy, San Francisco, Shithole of the Universe, 1980. Six gelatin silver prints, overall: 10 × 48 in. (25.4 × 121.9 cm) Frame: 14 1/8 × 52 × 1 1/2 in. (35.9 × 132.1 × 3.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone 2001.138.12. © Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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