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A smartphone reading "WHY FRIENDS NOW?" floats partially submerged inside a deflated life ring.

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Why Pictures Now (traced); Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Sometimes Silver or Gold

Louise Lawler

1981, printed 2013

Medium
Inkjet print and opaque watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 3 1/16 × 6 1/16 in. (7.8 × 15.4 cm)
Accession number
2016.34.3a-b
Acquired
2016
Credit line
Gift of Beth Rudin DeWoody in honor of Joan Hardy Clark
Reproduction credit
© Louise Lawler. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
Edition
8/100
Publication
Published by Artists Space; printed by Laumont Editions
Department
collection

About this work

Louise Lawler, Why Pictures Now (traced); Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Sometimes Silver or Gold, 1981, printed 2013. Inkjet print and opaque watercolor, sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Image: 3 1/16 × 6 1/16 in. (7.8 × 15.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Beth Rudin DeWoody in honor of Joan Hardy Clark 2016.34.3a-b. © Louise Lawler. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

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