60 Minutes
William Anastasi
American, 1933–2023
1987
A monumental, hour-long pencil drawing in which Anastasi amassed countless looping marks to record time and motion as a textured field.
The surface reads like a vibrating gray atmosphere—hundreds of fine, interlacing pencil strokes that build into a denser horizontal band, so the sheet reads simultaneously as fragile scribble and concentrated, blurred horizon.
By making drawing a durational, performative act, Anastasi links conceptual and process art—transforming repetitive, everyday marks into a visible record of time, movement, and the artist’s hand.
Medium
Pencil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
60 7/8 x 108 1/4" (154.7 x 274.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Eugene and Barbara Schwartz
Accession
31.1988
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