The Brown Sisters, Truro, Massachusetts

2009

Nicholas Nixon

Associated Names
Nicholas Nixon

Artist, American, born 1947

The image shows four women from the waist up, standing closely together. The woman on the far right has her hair tied back and is wearing a light-colored button-up shirt, with a pendant necklace and earrings. The woman next to her has curly, voluminous hair and is dressed in a dark top. To her left is a woman with short hair and earrings, wearing a top with three-quarter sleeves and a ring on her finger. On the far left is a woman with short, curly hair wearing a similar top. The background is bright, seemingly overexposed.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nicholas Nixon, Boston; NGA purchase (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Nicholas Nixon; by artist, across bottom verso in graphite: The Brown Sisters Truro Mass 2009 28/50 P2009; by unknown hand, bottom center verso in graphite: NN.2942.Y

Wikidata ID

Q64158525

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