Figure
Artist
Frederick Sommer
(American, born Italy, 1905 - 1999)
Date1963
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 1/2 x 8 1/16 inches (31.75 x 20.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.389
InscribedSigned/Titled/Dated
Signed in artist's hand
Mount Verso, Center
Pencil
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History
Frederick
Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage – A Centennial Celebration. The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 14 – July 31 2005, no ca
Rotation 22. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 10, 2016- January 8, 2017, no cat.
To render this subject—a hazy, nude female form—Frederick Sommer first made a sharply focused negative. He then printed it out of focus by adjusting the settings of his darkroom enlarger. This image is one of several nude studies produced by Sommer between 1960 and 1965 using his neighbor’s daughter, Lee Nevin, as a model.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2005;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation
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