A colorful textile wall hanging covered with knitted dolls and fabric scraps beside a small pedestal sculpture.

Sculpture

More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin

1987

Medium
Stuffed fabric toys and afghans on canvas with dried corn; wax candles on wood and metal base
Dimensions
Overall: 120 3/4 × 151 3/4 × 31 3/4 in. (306.7 × 385.4 × 80.6 cm)
Accession number
89.13a-d
Acquired
1989
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee
Reproduction credit
© The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Mike Kelley, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin, 1987. Stuffed fabric toys and afghans on canvas with dried corn; wax candles on wood and metal base, overall: 120 3/4 × 151 3/4 × 31 3/4 in. (306.7 × 385.4 × 80.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 89.13a-d. © The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Visual description

A horizontal canvas covered in stuffed animals and afghan blankets in muted colors.

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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