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A long gallery mural shows a stylized speeding locomotive with framed silhouette portraits along the wall.

Installations

Starlight

Alexis Smith

1982

Medium
Nine collages with metal, plastic, wood, feather, and bone on painted wall
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Accession number
2025.140a-j
Acquired
2025
Credit line
Gift of the artist's estate and the estate of Margo Leavin
Department
collection

About this work

Alexis Smith, Starlight, 1982. Nine collages with metal, plastic, wood, feather, and bone on painted wall, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist's estate and the estate of Margo Leavin 2025.140a-j

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