Large white canvas with bold black text explaining the painting's aim to encourage creative composition.

Paintings

What This Painting Aims to Do

1966–1968

Medium
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 67 7/8 × 56 9/16 × 1 in. (172.4 × 143.7 × 2.5 cm)
Accession number
2024.68
Acquired
2024
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© John Baldessari
Department
collection

About this work

John Baldessari, What This Painting Aims to Do, 1966–1968. Acrylic and oil on canvas, overall: 67 7/8 × 56 9/16 × 1 in. (172.4 × 143.7 × 2.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.68. © John Baldessari

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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