Artist Monograph

Carolee Schneemann, American

American, 1939–2019

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Photography	21	55.3%
Printmaking	9	23.7%
Film	3	7.9%
Drawing	3	7.9%
Lithography	1	2.6%
Video	1	2.6%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Media and Performance	22	57.9%
Drawings & Prints	14	36.8%
Painting & Sculpture	1	2.6%
Photography	1	2.6%

Production by Decade

1960s

1970s

1990s

2000s

Classification Types

Photograph — 20
Print — 10
Drawing — 4
Video — 3
Sculpture — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	2	7.7%
Medium (30–100 cm)	22	84.6%
Large (1–3 m)	1	3.8%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	3.8%

Range: 25.4 cm → 332.7 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1993	9
1994	1
2005	1
2007	2
2009	1
2010	1
2012	1
2015	20
2018	2

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 38 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Four Fur Cutting Boards Sculpture Acc. 1012.2015.a-l	1962-63	Oil paint, umbrellas, motors, lightbulbs, string lights, photographs, fabric, lace, hubcaps, printed papers, mirror, nylon stockings, nails, hinges, and staples on wood	90 1/2 × 131 × 52" (229.9 × 332.7 × 132.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	The Jill and Peter Kraus Endowed Fund for Contemporary Acquisitions; The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation (by exchange); The Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)
Eye Body # 24 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.14	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #1 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.10	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #10 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.7	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #11 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.2	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #13 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.9	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #15 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.18	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #2 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.1	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #20 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.12	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #21 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.5	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #22 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.3	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #26 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.16	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #28 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.8	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #3 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.13	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #4 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.4	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #5 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.15	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #6 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.17	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #7 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.6	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body #9 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.11	1963	Gelatin silver print, printed 2005	24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera Photograph Acc. 1780.2015.1-18	1963	Eighteen gelatin silver prints, printed 2005	Each: 24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the artist
Fuses Video Acc. 205.2007	1964–1967	16mm film transferred to video (color, silent)	18 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf and Committee on Media Funds
Meat Joy Video Acc. 69.2009	1964	16mm film transferred to video (color, sound)	6 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Study for Meat Joy Drawing Acc. 1576.2018.a-b	1964	Pressure-sensitive tape and pencil on paper	7 × 10" (17.8 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Portrait Partials Photograph Acc. 200.1994	1970	Thirty-five gelatin silver prints	26 7/8 × 26 3/4" (68.3 × 67.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of the Peter Norton Family Foundation
Up to and Including Her Limits Drawing Acc. 520.2012.a-j	1973–76	Crayon on paper, rope, harness, Super 8mm film projector, video (color, sound; 29 min.), and six monitors	Dimensions variable ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Committee on Drawings Funds and Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Study for More Than Meat Joy Box Drawing Acc. 1577.2018	1977	Felt-tip pen and pencil on transparentized paper on paper	9 1/2 × 10 3/8" (24.1 × 26.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.1	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.2	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.3	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.4	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.5	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.6	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.7	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.8	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Nine is a Four Letter Word Print Acc. 25.1993.9	1991	One from a portfolio of nine letter press prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Interior Scroll-The Cave Video Acc. 204.2007	1995	Video (color, sound)	7:30 min ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf and Committee on Media Funds
Mouth/Mouth Drawing Acc. 3019.2005.a-ddd	1997	Pencil and synthetic polymer paint on fifty-six pieces of paper	each: 14 x 10 1/2" (35.6 x 26.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Evidence from Femfolio Print Acc. 113.2010.12	2009	Digital print with lithograph from a portfolio of nineteen digital prints (twelve with lithograph, one with pochoir, one with hand coloring, and one with gold dusting) and one lithograph	composition: 11 15/16 x 12" (30.4 x 30.5 cm); sheet: 11 15/16 x 12" (30.4 x 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Ann and Lee Fensterstock in honor of Momenta Art