In conjunction with the exhibition Rachel Whiteread, the National Gallery of Art Library presents an installation of materials relating to Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture Ghost (1990). Considered the artist’s breakthrough work, Ghost is a plaster cast of the entire interior of a room in a North London Victorian home. In this exhibition the Library presents ephemera documenting the history of the sculpture as well as photographs of the previous inhabitants of this domestic space, revealing the more personal side of this seminal work in the Gallery’s permanent collection.

This installation is curated by Paige Rozanski, curatorial associate, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art, and Yuri Long, rare book librarian, National Gallery of Art.