Colorado

1967

Lee Friedlander

Associated Names
Lee Friedlander

Artist, American, born 1934

This is a photograph of a storefront window with reflections and posted signs. The left side of the image shows a reflection in the glass, where a picture of John F. Kennedy is prominently displayed with a blank sheet of paper beneath it. The reflection of a person, mostly obscured by the paper, is visible in the glass alongside the image of Kennedy. In the background through the reflection, a car can be faintly seen on the street. On the right side of the photograph, which captures a black door, several small handwritten notes are attached. The glass door seems to have remnants of letters that spell out something partially visible, and there are details of inner mechanisms like door handles and security sensors visible.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Trellis Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 16.4 x 23.7 cm (6 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
    mount: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.22.11


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

NGA purchase, 2001.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1970

  • Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait. New City, 1970: pl. 10. (2d ed. New York, 1998: pl. 12).

1978

  • Lee Friedlander: Photographs. Exh. cat. Hudson River Museum. New City, 1978: pl. 7.

1998

  • Lee Friedlander: Retratos. Exh. cat. Instituto de America de Santa Fe. Granada, 1998: 70.

Inscriptions

all on mount: upper right verso stamped in black ink: K77; center verso: artist's stamp with graphite addition: Lee Friedlander; center right verso in graphite: 12 (circled); center right verso in black felt tip pen: 53/22

Wikidata ID

Q64156473

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