Adam Trujillo and His Son Pat, Taos

Summer 1933

Marjorie Content

Associated Names
Marjorie Content

Artist, American, 1895 - 1984

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of the Gallery Girls

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.5 × 14.2 cm (4 1/2 × 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.117.5

  • Copyright

    Copyright Estate of Marjorie Content

More About this Artwork

This is a black-and-white photograph of a rocky landscape with a patch of scrubland stretching out into the distance. Closest to us, on the left side, a tall rocky mountain rises up. Standing on the rocks is a woman with her back to us. She has long, dark, straight hair that falls down her back, and she is wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt and a wide white skirt. In her left hand, she appears to hold a rope, or perhaps her hand is tangled in her long hair. In her right hand, she holds a large square object with a handle that looks like a radio or similar device. She stands behind tall, dark gray leafy plants. On the right, the background reveals a vast open terrain dotted with small shrubs under a light gray sky.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jill Quasha, New York); NGA purchase, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Quasha, Jill. Marjorie Content: Photographs. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, center in blue ink: Adam Trujillo & son; stamped center left in black ink: Estate of Marjorie Content

Wikidata ID

Q64157758

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