Framingham, MA
Artist
Sage Sohier
(American, born 1954)
Date1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 3/8 × 15 7/8 inches (26.35 × 40.32 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 16 15/16 inches (35.56 × 43.02 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 16 15/16 inches (35.56 × 43.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.44.14
SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, top, in pencil: “© 1981 Sage Sohier”;
Signed on sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: “Sage Sohier”
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, top, in pencil: “Framingham, Massachusetts, 1981.”;
Titled and dated on sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: ““Framingham, Mass.”” / 1981.”
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of two young women with long dark hair leaning on porch while talking to one another. In the dirt yard, a young woman stands barefoot next to a bicycle, laundry dries on clothesline, and a dog scratches his ear.Gallery LabelThis photograph records an everyday family interaction. Two young women talk to each other on a porch as a girl behind them leans barefoot on a bicycle, while a nearby dog scratches an ear.
Sage Sohier has always had an interest in photographing these kinds of intimate, personal moments. Between 1979 and 1986, Sohier traveled around Boston, Massachusetts, creating portraits of everyday American families and compiling them in a book titled Americans Seen. She spent time with these families, getting to know them and helping them feel more comfortable having their photographs taken.
Purchased from Joseph Bellows, La Jolla, CA by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Sage Sohier
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