Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1946-1989
Title of Work
Torso (Set of 54)
Preview
Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_B
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 in Floral Park, NY. Mapplethorpe attended Pratt Institute in 1963 were he obtained his BFA in painting and sculpture in 1970. Mapplethorpe did not originally intend to become a photographer, originally he made collages that incorporated images of men from pornographic magazine with some found objects and his painting. He is best known for his photography of still lifes, homoerotic images and portraits. Robert Mapplethorpe has work in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Museum and several others.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series II
Black and white photograph of a muscular man in black underwear holding his arms behind his back, this image is surrounded by a red border on the postcard.
UND Art Collections owns 54 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Robert Mapplethorpe, Torso
Photograph
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good