Documentation of Parallel Stress - A 10 minute performance piece - May 1970. Photo: Robert R. McElroy. Location: Abandoned sump. Long Island. Stress position resumed.

1970

Dennis Oppenheim

Artist, American, 1938 - 2011

Robert R. McElroy

Photographer, American, 1928 - 2012

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.7 x 14.5 cm (4 5/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 12.5 x 20.5 cm (4 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.93.38


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eileen and Michael Cohen, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Heiss, Alanna (with an essay by Thomas McEvilley). And the Mind Grew Fingers: Dennis Oppenheim, Selected Works 1967-90. New York, 1992.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist? upper left in graphite: Parallel Stress. 1970; lower left stamped in black ink: © Dennis Oppenheim; center hand-written in red crayon: [?] 4

Wikidata ID

Q64146573


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