Issue
conceived 1966
Sculptor, American, 1933 - 2023
Artwork overview
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Medium
displaced wall plaster
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 457.2 × 11.43 × 1.27 cm (180 × 4 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2018.190.2
More About this Artwork
Video: William Anastasi's Gallery Destruction Creates a Masterpiece
In this video, artist William Anastasi creates his artwork Issue by displacing bits of plaster into a pile.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; acquired 1994 by Virginia Dwan, New York;[1] gift 2018 to NGA.
[1] According to the Virginia Dwan Collection/Dwan Gallery Archives, this work was received from the artist in exchange for Mirage of Dining Room, a photographic silk-screened "site" piece made c. 1970 that had begun to deteriorate (see the e-mail of 10/28/2019 from Anne Kovach at the Dwan Archives to Emily Ann Francisco, NGA curatorial associate, in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016-2017.