Watertower Project

1998

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

How might one solidify water other than by freezing it? In New York in June 1998, a translucent 12 x 9–foot, 4½-ton sculpture created by Rachel Whiteread landed like a UFO atop a roof at the corner of West Broadway and Grand Street. The artist described the work—a resin cast of the interior of one of the city’s landmark wooden water tanks—as a "jewel in the Manhattan skyline." This print is a poetic trace of the massive sculpture, which was commissioned by the Public Art Fund. The original work of art holds and refracts light just like the acrylic resin applied to the surface of this print.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Watertower Project
Artist: Rachel Whiteread (British, born 1963)
Date: 1998
Medium: Screenprint with applied acrylic resin and graphite
Dimensions: Image: 20 in. × 15 15/16 in. (50.8 × 40.5 cm)
Sheet: 25 × 20 in. (63.5 × 50.8 cm)
Framed: 28 1/2 × 23 7/8 in. (72.4 × 60.6 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
Curatorial Department: Photographs