Untitled, c. 1971-1973, printed 1980

Not on View

portfolio Title

Troubled Waters

Medium

dye imbibition print

Dimensions

image: 44.45 × 29 cm (17 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)

sheet: 50.8 × 40.64 cm (20 × 16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., a Federal Agency, and The Polaroid Corporation)

Accession Number

2015.19.4254

Artists / Makers

William Eggleston (artist) American, born 1939

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, vertical along lower left edge in graphite: Eggleston; top left stamped vertical along upper left edge in black ink: This photograph is not released for / publication or commercial use of / any kind. All rights reserved.; upper left, vertical along left edge: Plate [12] of fifteen. Example [14] of thirty and V.; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 1981.117.12

Provenance

William Eggleston, Memphis, TN; Jo Tartt, Jr., Washington, DC; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 1981; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tartt, Jo Jr.

Exhibition History

1982: William Eggleston: Troubled Waters, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, August 3–October 24, 1982

2006: redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 15, 2006–January 2, 2007

Bibliography

2008: Sussman, Elizabeth and Thomas Weski et al. William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008. New Haven, CT, 2008: 92, 280, no. 38.