Rachel Whiteread
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Shallow Breath, 1988, plaster and polystyrene, Courtesy of the artist. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
![Set in a gallery against a row of windows, a free-standing, white plaster cube, nearly reaching the ceiling, angles back and away from us slightly to our right. The cube is made of blocks that fit together so the seams are visible. The side to our left is smooth. A short, tongue-like projection at the bottom center of the face to our right is surrounded by an inverted, squared off U arching over it. Though not obvious in this photograph, the artist created this work by filling an empty room with plaster. The tongue-like shape is the inside of a fireplace, and is lightly blackened where it lined the interior. The inset paneling in the cube would have been the room's mantlepiece, and inset bands along the floor and top of the cube would have been the baseboards and crown molding. The cube sits on a polished stone floor, and the ceiling of the room in which it sits is made of hollow triangular coffers. Opposite us, trees and a building are seen through the wall of windows behind the cube.](https://media.nga.gov/iiif/b22074d3-1420-4cef-93e2-5b44a4c4a7bf/full/!740,560/0/default.jpg)
Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Ghost, 1990, plaster on steel frame, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Glenstone Foundation. © Rachel Whiteread
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Rachel Whiteread, Green Bed, 1992, ink, correction fluid, and watercolor, Tate: Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and The Michael Harry Sacher Charitable Trust 2011. © Rachel Whiteread. Image © Tate, 2018. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Study for House, 1992, correction fluid and pencil on color photocopy (two parts), Courtesy of the artist. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Table and Chair (Green), 1994, rubber and polystyrene, Collection of Gail and Tony Ganz. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Untitled (Pink Torso), 1995, dental plaster, Courtesy of the artist. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Untitled (Twenty-Five Spaces), 1995, resin (twenty-five units), Private collection. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Untitled (Yellow Bath), 1996, rubber and polystyrene, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, The Henry L. Hillman Fund, 1996. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Untitled (Domestic), 2002, cast plaster on armatures, Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Owned jointly by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; George B. and Jenny R. Matthews Fund and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Henry L. Hillman Fund, 2006. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, CONTENTS, 2005, plaster (fourteen units), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Purchase, by exchange, through gifts of Harriet Lane Levy, Lily Lawlor, Albert M. Bender, Maurine Church Coburn, Mrs. Winifred Yelland Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Engelhart, Mrs. Charles de Young Elkus, R. E. Lewis, Miss Bess Replogle, Dr. and Mrs. Leon Kolb, Andre Kahn-Wolf, Mrs. Walter Camp, the Carnegie Corporation, and anonymous donors. © Rachel Whiteread
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, LINE UP, 2007–2008, plaster, pigment, resin, wood, and metal (eighteen units, one shelf), Private collection, New York. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Ghost, Ghost II, 2009, polyurethane (fourteen parts), Agnes Gund Collection. © Rachel Whiteread 2018. Photo: © Tate (Joe Humphrys)
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, circa 1665 (I), 2012, resin, Private collection. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, LOOK, LOOK, LOOK, 2012, resin (three panels), Private collection. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Untitled (Violet), 2012, silver leaf, cardboard, celluloid, and pencil on paper, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill. © Rachel Whiteread. Image courtesy the artist/ Gagosian, London/ Luhring Augustine, New York/ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
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Rachel Whiteread, British, born 1963, Due Porte, 2016, resin (two panels), Galleria Lorcan O’Neill. © Rachel Whiteread 2018