DEC. 17, 1979

On Kawara · 1979

This is DEC. 17, nineteen seventy-nine — a painting by the Japanese artist On Kawara, nineteen seventy-nine. Acrylic, a pigment suspended in plastic emulsion that dries in minutes and stays flexible afterwards. You can pick out the lettering.

Medium Acrylic on canvas · Dimensions 18 3/16 × 24 3/8" (46.2 × 61.7 cm), box 2 × 25 × 18 3/4" (5.1 × 63.5 × 47.6 cm) · Credit Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 413: Double-Bar, Grey (Green Line), DEC. 18, 1979

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Come on the Telephone, Artist's Shit No. 014, The Last Supper, One Year, Colombia, Gorgona no. 1

More by On Kawara here: DEC. 18, 1979, MAY 20, 1967