Object Details
- Gallery Label
- Jonathan Borofsky's monumental silhouette of a man carrying a briefcase portrays an urban Everyman. The artist was inspired in 1979 by a newspaper advertisement for men's suits and subsequently made this archetypal office worker a recurring theme in his work. The number on the figure's leg, "3277542," reflects the artist's habit of "signing" his pieces with a number from a continuous sequence.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Jonathan Borofsky, born Boston, MA 1942
- Date
- 1987-1988
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Thelma and Melvin Lenkin and Julie Walters and Sam Rose in honor of Elizabeth Broun, Director from 1989 to 2016
- Medium
- Cor-Ten steel
- Dimensions
- 320 × 94 1/2 × 2 3/4 in. (812.8 × 240.0 × 7.0 cm)
- Type
- Sculpture
