Untitled

1975

Jo Ann Callis

Associated Names
Jo Ann Callis

Artist, American, born 1940

This is a photograph of a neatly made bed with textured bedding. The image shows a bed with a patterned bedspread covering it completely. The design on the bedspread consists of repeating circular patterns, with the fabric arranged to create soft ruffles along the edge. The lighting in the photograph illuminates the bed's surface, creating shadows that cast a gradient from bright highlights in the middle to softer tones on the sides. The room is dark and simple, focusing attention on the contrasting textures and tones of the bedspread.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 14.2 × 21.1 cm (5 9/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
    mount: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.60


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; (sale, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA, before 2013; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right below image in graphite: Jo Ann Callis; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: Callis / Book 6 / #13; center: D / [illegible]; bottom right: 487/lot


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