Untitled

1979

Alex Jamison

Associated Names
Alex Jamison

Artist, American, born 1950

The image shows three young men from the waist up, standing close together with their arms crossed. The first young man on the left wears a light-colored short-sleeve polo shirt and a bucket hat with a light and dark pattern. He has short, neatly styled hair seen under the hat. The middle young man also has short hair and wears a light t-shirt and a plain bucket hat, with a dollar bill tucked under his shirt’s neckline. The third young man on the right has closely cropped hair and wears a sweater or cardigan over a t-shirt, with a towel draped loosely around his neck with a dollar bill attached to it. They are positioned in front of a store with shoe displays visible through the glass behind them, and the sign above reads "FASHION."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.96 × 27.1 cm (8 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.62 × 35.4 cm (10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.22.59


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alex Jamison, Alexandria, VA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and the Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC), 1980; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in graphite: ALEX JAMISON © 1979 / Alexander Jamison; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: acc. # 1980.135

Wikidata ID

Q64032518

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