Hat Rack

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A wooden hat rack with six curved arms.

Artist Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968)

Title Hat Rack (Porte-Chapeau)

Date 1964 edition (after 1917 original)

Medium Wooden hat rack

Dimensions Object: 9 3/8 × 17 5/8 × 13 in. (23.8 × 44.8 × 33 cm)
Overall: 9 3/8 × 17 5/8 × 13 in. (23.8 × 44.8 × 33 cm)

Credit Line Partial gift of Mrs. William H. Conroy, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 71.37.10

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The original Hat Rack hung from the ceiling of Duchamp’s studio in New York in 1917. By suspending this object from the ceiling, he rendered its function useless, and transformed it into a kinetic sculpture. Arguably more interesting than the object itself are the shadows it casts on the walls around it.

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"Hat Rack | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=71.37.10