A steaming orange cup with a small spoon stirring and wisps of steam rising above.

Photographs

Coffee Spilled Because the Cup Was Too Hot

1966–1967, printed 1970

Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 7/16 in. (49.8 × 59.5 cm) Image: 19 1/2 × 23 7/16 in. (49.5 × 59.5 cm)
Accession number
70.50.2
Acquired
1970
Credit line
Purchase
Reproduction credit
© Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
7/8
Department
collection

About this work

Bruce Nauman, Coffee Spilled Because the Cup Was Too Hot, 1966–1967, printed 1970. Chromogenic print, sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 7/16 in. (49.8 × 59.5 cm) Image: 19 1/2 × 23 7/16 in. (49.5 × 59.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 70.50.2. © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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