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Rust-colored metal human silhouette with outstretched arms and nails along its edges.

Sculpture

Skin/Deep

Alison Saar

1993

Medium
Ceiling tin, nails and copper
Dimensions
Overall: 82 1/2 × 83 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (209.6 × 213 × 6.4 cm)
Accession number
93.34a-b
Acquired
1993
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee
Reproduction credit
© Alison Saar
Department
collection

About this work

Alison Saar, Skin/Deep, 1993. Ceiling tin, nails and copper, overall: 82 1/2 × 83 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (209.6 × 213 × 6.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 93.34a-b. © Alison Saar

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