Border Patrol Target #51 Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge, Texas

2013, printed 2021

Richard Misrach

Associated Names
Richard Misrach

Artist, American, born 1949

This is a photograph of a heavily damaged paper shooting target. The image depicts a paper target shaped like a human silhouette with numerous bullet holes concentrated around the center of the target, tearing through the paper and creating jagged edges. The area around the upper torso of the silhouette is almost entirely destroyed, with large chunks of the paper missing. In the background, the image shows the ground and some grass, visible through the large openings in the target. The paper is marked with dashed white outlines designating different scoring areas, and red text is visible on the upper part.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    inkjet print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Richard Misrach

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 45.72 × 34.29 cm (18 × 13 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.91.17

  • Series Title

    Border Cantos

  • Copyright

    photo credit: © Richard Misrach, (2014)

More About this Artwork

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Misrach, Emeryville, CA; gift to NGA, 2021.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, center, in graphite: Border Patrol Target #51, Texas / 2013 / 1/7 / Richard Misrach 2013/2021 C.P.

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