Kel Cos Shy

1980

Henry Chalfant

Associated Names
Henry Chalfant

Artist, American, born 1940

This is a photograph of a heavily graffiti-covered subway train. The subway car, marked with the number 7512, is covered in colorful spray-painted designs. The graffiti comprises a variety of overlapping shapes, letters, and characters in vibrant colors such as blue, orange, yellow, and green. The background of the train car is a muted steel color. Each window of the train adds to the layered texture, some being darkened and others giving glimpses of the structure behind the graffiti. There is also a transit sign indicating the train's route, visible on the right.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Samuel A. and Sandra Esses, East Hampton, NY; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist on mount, lower right below image in graphite: Henry Chalfant 1/10 '80; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink circled, crossed out in graphite: 19; upper left in blue ink: Kel Cos Shy; center in graphite on angle: ESSES / DRY MOUNT; center circled: 9A; center right: 118; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 2003.17.50; by unknown hand, bottom right in blue ink reversed: KEL, cos, shy.

Wikidata ID

Q64155050

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