Untitled

1978

William Eggleston

Associated Names
William Eggleston

Artist, American, born 1939

The image shows dried plants with withered leaves and stems in the foreground, with blurry shadows against a sunlit wall in the background. The color palette consists of warm earth tones, including shades of tan, beige, and hints of reddish-brown. The plants are slightly to the left of center, with their shadows extending across the wall to the right.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 13–December 2, 1979, organized by the Bell System. Travelled until April 1982

Bibliography

1979

  • Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 86, 214.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 119B; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.3.24

Wikidata ID

Q64170321

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