Cañeros, 1998

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 41.1 × 53.9 cm (16 3/16 × 21 1/4 in.)

sheet: 50.5 × 60.7 cm (19 7/8 × 23 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the UBS Art Collection

Accession Number

2023.30.134

Artists / Makers

David M. Spear (artist) American, born 1937

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: Cañeros / I made this image north of Vera Cruz Mexico. / It was about 103 degrees that day and these men were cutting sugarcane. / David M. Spear / © 1999 / This image was made in 1998 / For John Szarkowski Paine Webber Collection; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW 7253

Provenance

David M. Spear, Madison, NC; Paine Webber & Co., New York, 11 January 2000; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

UBS Art Collection