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The Brown Sisters, Cataumet, Massachusetts

2007

Nicholas Nixon

Artist, American, born 1947

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Dimensions

image/sheet: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Accession

2008.58.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nicholas Nixon; (Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2008.

Associated Names

National Gallery of Art

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, across bottom, in artist's hand in graphite: The BROWN sisters Cataumet, MASS 2007 26/50 p2007 NN.2568.4 Nicholas Nixon

Wikidata ID

Q64158522

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