Untitled

1993

Thomas Roma

Associated Names
Thomas Roma

Artist, American, born 1950

The image shows three males kneeling indoors. The central figure is a young boy with his head slightly bowed and hands clasped on a wooden pew. He wears a light-colored suit and white shirt. Flanking him are two older males in suits. One leans over the boy, and the other is behind him on the left. The setting has wooden paneling and a carpeted floor, with a pew in the foreground and part of an altar area in the background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.5 × 24.1 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.121.64

  • Series Title

    Come Sunday

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Roma, Brooklyn, NY; gift to Lee and Maria Friedlander, his parents-in-law, New York, mid-1990s; gift to Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York, 1990s; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Come Sunday: Photographs by Thomas Roma, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 4 - June 18, 1996.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom center in graphite: Thomas Roma 1993; bottom left: 2096-93-1; by unknown hand, bottom right: TR9847.19

Wikidata ID

Q64170455

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