Untitled (Esther Phillips)

1973

Mikki Ferrill

Associated Names
Mikki Ferrill

Artist, American, born 1937

The image features a person with their upper body visible and slightly turned to the side. Their face is tilted upwards, and their mouth is open wide, displaying their teeth. The person's facial features are partially obscured due to low light. Their hair is short, and they are wearing earrings. They are dressed in a dark halter-top that reveals their shoulders, and they have a pendant necklace. The rest of the image is dark with little visible detail.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.7 × 22.2 cm (4 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.98.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anthony Barboza, Westbury, NY; (Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2020.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025

Inscriptions

on verso, upper right stamped in black ink: Photo by / Mikki Ferrill; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite perpendicular: A-221 2

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