Untitled
James Francis Gill
American, born 1934
1965
A black-and-white lithograph that layers duplicated, mask-like male portraits and fragments of advertising to expose the anonymous, manufactured identities of mid‑1960s corporate and media culture.
You’re struck by two mirror-like groupings of smudged, half‑obliterated faces in suits—their features melting into newsprint dots and shadow—split by a vertical strip of cropped ad text that reads like an intrusion.
Working within Pop Art’s vocabulary of commercial imagery and mechanical texture, the print turns repetition and collage into a darker social critique, pushing portraiture toward seriality and commentary on conformity and mass reproduction.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition and sheet: 23 3/4 × 33 11/16" (60.3 × 85.6 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Accession
1511.1967
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