The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude

1987

Sally Mann

Artist, American, born 1951

A young woman with flushed, peachy skin stands on a rocky shoreline with a fishing net slung over one shoulder in this horizontal painting. Her body faces us, and she looks off and down to our right. Her left hand, to our right, is planted on her hip, and she clutches the gray net with her other hand. Her head tips toward us as her chin tucks back toward her shoulder. She has a round jaw, a straight nose, and her pink lips are set in a line. Her brown hair is pulled back and up, and bangs sweep across her forehead. Her ash-brown shirt has white stripes around the neck, across the waist, and around the hems of the elbow-length sleeves. Her skirt is painted with strokes of mauve pink and silvery gray. A stiff breeze sweeps the skirt to our left and reveals a glimpse of red stockings over sturdy gray shoes. The dark shoreline angles from the lower left corner to halfway up the right edge of the composition. White water breaks over boulders in the surf beyond. Light reflects brightly along the horizon, which comes just over halfway up the painting. A white bird flies in the pewter-gray sky. The artist signed and dated the painting in red in the lower right corner, “Homer 1897.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 50 × 60 cm (19 11/16 × 23 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.4418

  • Copyright

    Image (C) Sally Mann


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sally Mann, Lexington, VA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Both Sides of the Street, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, August 25, 2003 – December 8, 2003

2006

  • Sight/Insight: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 26, 2006 – October 29, 2006

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: The Last time Emmett / 4/25 Modeled Nude © 1987 / Sally Mann

Wikidata ID

Q64171332


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