Eleanor Antin
100 Boots

ArtistAmerican, born 1935
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • 100 Boots
Date1971–1972
MediumOffset lithographs
DimensionsImage (Each): 4 1/2 × 7 in. (11.4 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet (Each): 4 1/2 × 7 in. (11.4 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Morris Weiner, Michael Zilkha, Franci Neely, and Nena Marsh
Object number2020.398.1-.51
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


After buying 100 surplus army boots, Eleanor Antin arranged and photographed them in different settings across the United States, then turned her pictures into postcards that she mailed to about 1,000 people around the world at intervals ranging from three days to five weeks. The project, lasting two and a half years, found its conclusion when the Museum of Modern Art offered to exhibit the series; the final postcard shows the 100 boots entering the museum. Together, they tell an epic, humorous story while challenging the idea of the “unique” work of art and bypassing traditional art-world distribution and exhibition systems.



Provenance[Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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100 Boots at the Pond
Eleanor Antin
July 12, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.15
100 Boots Outside
Eleanor Antin
October 14, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.16
100 Boots Inside
Eleanor Antin
October 13, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.17
100 Boots on the Way Down
Eleanor Antin
October 13, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.18
100 Boots in the Street
Eleanor Antin
February 15, 1972
Offset lithograph
2020.398.23
100 Boots Try Again
Eleanor Antin
June 24, 1972
Offset lithograph
2020.398.24
100 Boots Doing Their Best
Eleanor Antin
June 24, 1972
Offset lithograph
2020.398.25
100 Boots in the Wild Mustard
Eleanor Antin
June 19, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.19
100 Boots in the Marsh
Eleanor Antin
October 8, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.20
100 Boots on the Job
Eleanor Antin
February 15, 1972
Offset lithograph
2020.398.21
100 Boots Out of a Job
Eleanor Antin
February 15, 1972
Offset lithograph
2020.398.22
100 Boots on the Way to Church
Eleanor Antin
February 9, 1971
Offset lithograph
2020.398.2