A stylized wolf-like creature stands while two children nurse beneath it with Earth above.

Prints

True Myth

1983

Medium
Screenprint
Dimensions
Sheet: 24 × 17 15/16 in. (61 × 45.6 cm) Image: 17 5/8 × 17 1/8 in. (44.8 × 43.5 cm) Mount (board): 24 1/8 × 18 1/16 × 1/4 in. (61.3 × 45.9 × 0.6 cm)
Accession number
2002.191
Acquired
2002
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Reproduction credit
© The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Edition
AP
Department
collection

About this work

David Wojnarowicz, True Myth, 1983. Screenprint, sheet: 24 × 17 15/16 in. (61 × 45.6 cm) Image: 17 5/8 × 17 1/8 in. (44.8 × 43.5 cm) Mount (board): 24 1/8 × 18 1/16 × 1/4 in. (61.3 × 45.9 × 0.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation 2002.191. © The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

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