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Artists›Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

1927–2006

WA-00012498

PaintingPerformance ArtFluxus

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

100%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ366380

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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BERLINART 1961�1987

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Video Art: A History

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983–1984

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Bookworks

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

Field Verification (4 fields)

3 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
LocationGallery Hauser· 80%

Source Registry (4)

Marian-Goodmanhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/allan-kaprow
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/allan-kaprow
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2997
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artist Index
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

About

Why this artist matters now

Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, performance art, and installation art were, in turn, influenced by his work.

Source: Marian Goodman · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Performance Art

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (21)

Pose, March 22, 1969, Continued 1970 -

1969 · Manila envelope, letterpress prints on cardboard

Envelope: 37 × 22.2 cm (14 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Prints: 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Pose: Carrying Chairs through the City, Sitting Down Here and There, Photographed, Pix Left on Spot, Going On from Artists & Photographs

1969 · Offset envelope, containing seven offset lithographs, from a portfolio of nineteen printed objects

sheet (each): 10 13/16 × 7 7/8" (27.4 × 20 cm); envelope: 12 × 8 7/8" (30.5 × 22.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Pose, March 22, 1969 Continued 1970 from Artists & Photographs

1969 · Seven offset lithographs from a portfolio of 19 printed objects

sheet (each): 10 13/16 x 7 7/8" (27.4 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose, March 22, 1969 Continued 1970 – from Artists & Photographs

1969 · Offset envelope, containing seven offset lithographs, from a portfolio of nineteen printed objects

sheet (each): 10 13/16 × 7 7/8" (27.4 × 20 cm); envelope: 12 × 8 7/8" (30.5 × 22.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Other Away), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in yellow on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Time Long Silence), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in brown (reddish-brown) on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Is Numbers And Time), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in red on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Into Picked A The), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in blue on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Silver A In Off), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in silver on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Calling

1967 · confirm

19 15/16 x 23 3/4 x 9/16" (50.7 x 60.3 x 1.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cocktail Table

1967 · Multiple of "Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings" by Allan Kaprow, wooden legs, bottle and glass

overall: 28 x 15 x 15 1/4" (71.1 x 38.1 cm, 15 1/4"); component (book): 12 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 2 1/8" (32.4 x 31.4 x 5.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

How to Make a Happening

1966 · 12-inch vinyl record

cover: 12 1/4 × 12 1/4" (31.1 × 31.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Prototype for Calling

1966 · Artist's book of cardboard and string, containing 273 sheets of paper with rubberstamp and metallic foil endpaper

sheet (each): 3 x 2 5/8" (7.6 x 6.7 cm); overall: 2 5/8 x 3 7/16 x 7 13/16" (6.7 x 8.7 x 19.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Calling)

1965 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 24 3/16 x 18 1/8" (61.4 x 46 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 5/16" (76 x 56.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Tree)

1965 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 24 1/4 x 18 1/4" (61.6 x 46.3 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 1/4" (76 x 56.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Double page in-text plate (pages 100 and 101) from 1¢ Life

1964 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with sixty-two lithographs and reproductions

composition: 13 1/8 × 21 1/2" (33.3 × 54.6 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 1/8 × 22 13/16" (41 × 58 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (plate 10) from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America)

1964 · Etching from an album of 16 etchings (one with aquatint, one with drypoint, one with pencil additions), three photogravures (two with etching), and one relief halftone

plate: 5 13/16 x 4 7/16" (14.8 x 11.3cm); page: 11 3/4 x 9 7/16" (29.8 x 24 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Stockroom from Fluxus 1

1961 · Double-sided offset

book: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 1 15/16" (19.1 × 21 × 5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Stockroom from Fluxshop

1961 · 104 copies of print on paper

sheet (each): 8 3/16 x 7 11/16" (20.8 x 19.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1955 · Etching on white wove paper

Plate: 14.5 × 10.9 cm (5 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 25.3 × 19.1 cm (10 × 7 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Nail Piece

Envelope: 8 11/16 x 11 1/4" (22 x 28.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (2)

21 published of 36 catalogued · 24 with image

MoMA
14 publishedof 29 catalogued17 img
Art Institute Chicago
7 published7 img

Record

Images

Wikipedia

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Influence1

Roy Lichtensteininfluence

Movements2

Performance Art Fluxus

Collections3

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Phillips

Background

Education

High School of Music & Art

Visual Arts

Hans Hoffman School of Fine Art

Visual Arts

Network

Related Artists

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting

influenced

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition BERLINART 1961�1987

New York · 1987

Group Exhibition Video Art: A History

New York · 1983

Group Exhibition Bookworks

New York · 1977