M26489: Male Underpants
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M26489
- People
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Robert Watts, American (Burlington, IA 1923 - 1988 Martins Creek, PA)
Published by Fluxus, American
- Title
- Male Underpants
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1966
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/29862
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print on fabric
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- greatest dimen.: 33 x 22 cm (13 x 8 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Barbara Moore, Bound/Unbound, New York, New York, partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, June 28, 2005.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- S. 517
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection, Margaret Fisher Fund and gift of Barbara Moore/Bound & Unbound
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- M26489
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- This work pictures the genitals of sculptor John Chamberlain. Somewhat oddly, both Watts' "Male" and "Female" underpants are printed on women's panties, although this is not always the case.
Publication History
- Jacob Proctor, Ken Friedman, and Hannah Higgins, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, exh. cat., ed. Jacquelynn Baas, Hood Museum of Art and University of Chicago Press (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 115, cat. 82, ill.
Exhibition History
- Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
- Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/16/2011 - 08/07/2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 09/09/2011 - 12/03/2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 02/25/2012 - 05/20/2012
- 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2018 - 10/04/2018
Verification Level
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