M26488: Female Underpants

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M26488

People

Robert Watts, American (Burlington, IA 1923 - 1988 Martins Creek, PA)
Published by Fluxus, American

Title

Female Underpants

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1966

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/30030

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Screen print on fabric

Technique

Screen print

Dimensions

greatest dimen.: 33 x 28 cm (13 x 11 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.I

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

M26488

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 28, fig. 3.3; p. 115, cat. 81, 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

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