Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 85,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Home
Drawings
The Whiteness of the Whale

The Whiteness of the Whale

The Whiteness of the Whale

1985

Medium: Acrylic on found paper, mounted on linen
Dimensions: Overall: 10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (25.7 × 20.5 cm) Image: 7 × 4 1/4 in. (17.8 × 10.8 cm)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, US

About

Tim Rollins and K.O.S., The Whiteness of the Whale, 1985–1986. Acrylic on found paper, mounted on linen, overall: 10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (25.7 × 20.5 cm) Image: 7 × 4 1/4 in. (17.8 × 10.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner P.2011.349

More by Tim Rollins

Plate III from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate III from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

Plate VIII from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate VIII from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

Plate X from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate X from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

Plate V from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate V from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

The Temptation of Saint Anthony XXXVI - The Sun

The Temptation of Saint Anthony XXXVI - The Sun

Tim Rollins, 1990

Plate XIII from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate XIII from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

Plate IX from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate IX from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

Der Verschollene

Der Verschollene

Tim Rollins, 1990

The Whiteness of the Whale II (after Herman Melville)

The Whiteness of the Whale II (after Herman Melville)

Tim Rollins, 1991

Winterreise-Wasserfluth

Winterreise-Wasserfluth

Tim Rollins, 1989

Plate I from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate I from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

Plate XI from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Plate XI from The Temptation of Saint Antony I-XIV

Tim Rollins, 1989

The Whiteness of the Whale by Tim Rollins — VisualArtsDB