She Sucked Her Thumb
1989
Artist, American, born 1939
Artwork overview
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Medium
cyanotype
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
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Dimensions
image: 27.5 × 21.5 cm (10 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
sheet: 35.1 × 27.7 cm (13 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4483
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Clarissa Sligh, New York; purchased by the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1998
Developing Illusions, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 14, 1998 – January 18, 1999
2016
Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
signed by the artist, lower right in graphite: Clarissa T. Sligh; lower left in graphite: 1989; on verso, by artist, across top in graphite: She Sucked Her Thumb #3 Clarissa T. Sligh 1989
Wikidata ID
Q64145905