Overtly displaced from its original context (the everyday bathroom), Fountain is not only rotated, but has been displayed suspending from a doorjamb (Molesworth 56). In fact, this Readymade was hung from a lintel at an exhibition in the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in 1953 (Ramirez 58). Molesworth notes the complete uselessness of the urinal in such positions, humorously noting that, "if a man pees in the Fountain his urine will drip on him (56).