Sarah Wentworth


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The Postcard Project: Surreptitious Installations



Museum of Fine Arts, Boston



October 21, 1999

Joseph Beuys, Capri-Batterie, 1985

Sarah Wentworth, Autobiography, 1999 (BFA MassArt 1985)

William Wegman, Intirely, 1990 (BFA MassArt 1965)



Guggenheim Museum, New York



November 12, 1999

Jenny Holzer, The Survival Series and The Living Series, 1989

Sarah Wentworth, Autobiography, 1999

Frank Lloyd Wright, The Guggenheim Museum, 1956



Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York



November 12, 1999

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X , 1884

Sarah Wentworth, Autobiography, 1999

Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890-91



Whitney Museum, New York



November 12, 1999

Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock, 1950

Sarah Wentworth, Autobiography, 1999

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #146, 1985



National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.



April 22, 2000

Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664

Sarah Wentworth, Autobiography, 1999

Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Writing, 1665



Museum of Modern Art, New York



December 8, 1999

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1951

Sarah Wentworth, Autobiography, 1999

Giorgio de Chirico, The Song of Love, 1914



The Postcard Project: Surreptitious Installations



1999 - 2000

I appropriated the gift shops of prominent art museums as exhibition space to humorously subvert the sequence of art marketing in the creation of artists' reputations. Each Surreptitious Installation (of a postcard of my own work into the postcard racks of art museum shops) was documented by a photo, the purchase of my own card along with adjoining cards, the receipt, and the museum bag.