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A large stylized foot with red-striped toenails towers over a bright beach and sky.

Sculpture

Seascape Number 15

Tom Wesselmann

1967

Medium
Painted thermo-formed acrylic
Dimensions
Overall: 65 3/16 × 44 13/16 × 5 1/2 in. (165.6 × 113.8 × 14 cm) Overall (unframed): 64 7/8 × 44 9/16 × 4 in. (164.8 × 113.2 × 10.2 cm)
Accession number
68.29
Acquired
1968
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.
Reproduction credit
© The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
Per the Object Questionnaire, Mar-27-1968: "There are Four "Shells" in existence - three of which are completed - each painted uniquely- (one is not painted but is charcoal drawing).".
Department
collection

About this work

Tom Wesselmann, Seascape Number 15, 1967. Painted thermo-formed acrylic, overall: 65 3/16 × 44 13/16 × 5 1/2 in. (165.6 × 113.8 × 14 cm) Overall (unframed): 64 7/8 × 44 9/16 × 4 in. (164.8 × 113.2 × 10.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc. 68.29. © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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