CHARLES RAY — Boy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997

Artist postcard, Charles Ray, Boy, 1992. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997. Offset-printed on card stock, 10.2 × 15.2 cm. Recto reproduces Ray’s Boy, 1992 — painted fiberglass, steel, and fabric; 181.6 × 68.6 × 86.4 cm overall. Verso carries the full museum caption, materials, dimensions, acquisition credit, accession number, and Whitney Museum copyright line.

Ray’s work from the late 1980s and early 1990s often used mannequins, altered scale, and the human figure to create a strange tension between realism and artificiality. Boy belongs to this important period: a sculpture that appears direct and ordinary, but becomes unsettling through its stillness, surface, and institutional presentation.

Originally produced as a museum postcard, this object was made for circulation rather than permanence. It carries the sculpture into another form: image, caption, acquisition record, and Whitney Museum imprint compressed into a portable printed support. A small institutional document attached to a major work by one of the defining American sculptors of his generation.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Light surface marks, faint age toning, and minor edge and corner wear consistent with handling and storage. Unposted. Ships securely packed; UK and international shipping available.