The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

2015

Nicholas Nixon

Associated Names
Nicholas Nixon

Artist, American, born 1947

Four women are shown in the image, standing closely together from the shoulders up. The woman on the left has short, wavy hair and wears a light-colored top, with her hand on the shoulder of the next woman. The second woman has short hair, wears earrings, and a buttoned top. The third woman has center-parted curly hair and wears a dark-colored shirt, standing centrally. The woman on the right has long, wavy hair and wears a light, striped top with a heart-shaped pendant necklace. The background displays leafy trees in a slightly blurred focus.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Randi and Bob Fisher Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.6 × 24.6 cm (7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.38.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Nicholas Nixon; by artist, across bottom in graphite: The Brown Sisters Wellfleet, Mass. 2015 38/50; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: NN4173.Y

Wikidata ID

Q64158536

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