Pittsburgh (market)

2004, printed 2014

Paul Graham

Associated Names
Paul Graham

Artist, British, born 1956

The images show supermarket shelves filled with canned goods and packaged items. The color palette includes bold labels in red, yellow, blue, and white. The shelves are lined with canned vegetables and soups on one end, moving to a section with condiments such as sauces and seasonings, and then mostly empty shelves with only a few products like soap bars. Some products are stacked neatly in rows, while others are grouped in small clusters. There are noticeable gaps and emptiness on the far-right end of the shelves.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Susan and Peter MacGill, New York; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016

Inscriptions

on verso of first panel, signed by artist, upper right in black ink: Paul Graham; center left of frame printed in black ink on applied Pace/MacGill Gallery label: PACE/MACGILL GALLERY / 32 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK NEW YORK 10022 / PAUL GRAHAM / Pittsburgh, 2004 / six pigment prints / each image, 9 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches / each paper and mount, 9 3/8 x 13 inches / signed in ink on label affixed verso / to mount of panel a / edition #1/5, with 2 APS / prints made 2014 / PG.175.1 / panel a; on verso of second through sixth panel frames with corresponding panel letters, center printed in black ink on applied Pace/MacGill Gallery label: PACE/MACGILL GALLERY / 32 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK NEW YORK 10022 / PAUL GRAHAM / Pittsburgh, 2004 / six pigment prints / each image, 9 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches / each paper and mount, 9 3/8 x 13 inches / signed in ink on label affixed verso / to mount of panel a / edition #1/5, with 2 APS / prints made 2014 / PG.175.1 / panel [corresponding panel letter b-f]; by unknown hand, lower center of frame on applied Knight Works Inc label: LUXAR PG 175.1; lower center of frame printed in black ink on applied Knights Work Inc label: A DIFFERENT BREED OF FRAMER / Knight Works Inc / J.C., NJ 07304 / (201)333-9990 / 2014 Reflection Control Glass / KW# [by unknown hand in black ink: 10470] / KNIGHT WORKS INC.

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