
David Hammons, Close Your Eyes and See Black, 1969. Pigment on gold-coated paperboard, 35 7/8 x 24 3/4 inches (91.1 x 62.9 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased through prior gifts of Daimler-Benz in honor of Thomas M. Messer, the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., William C. Edwards, Jr., in memory of Sibyl H. Edwards, the Estate of Karl Nierendorf, Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Ostow, and Dr. Solomon W. Schaefer, 2018.