The Brown Sisters, Cataumet, Massachusetts

2005

Nicholas Nixon

Associated Names
Nicholas Nixon

Artist, American, born 1947

The image depicts four women standing closely together from the waist up. The woman on the far left has short, dark hair and wears a light-colored, long-sleeved top with crossed arms. The second woman has short hair and wears a sleeveless, dark top, with her arm around the shoulder of the woman on the left. The third woman has curly, shoulder-length hair and wears a sleeveless black top. The woman on the far right has long, wavy hair and wears a light button-up shirt over a light top, with hands clasped together. They are outdoors near water, with rocks and distant tree-covered hills in the background and lighting suggesting sunrise or sunset.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.114.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nicholas Nixon; (Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2005.

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

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Nicholas Nixon; by artist, across bottom verso in graphite: The Brown Sisters Catalumet, Mass. 2005 28/50 p2005; by unknown hand, bottom right verso in graphite: NN.1881.4

Wikidata ID

Q64158520

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