Carriage House 1

Artist Frank Hamilton (American, born 1946)

Date1984

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 x 11 3/16 inches (25.4 x 28.42 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 inches (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Mount: 14 x 17 inches (35.56 x 43.18 cm)

Credit LineGift of Drs. Antonio S. and Luz S. Racela

Object numberF91-72/23

Signedl.r. front, embossed: Frank P. Hamilton; verso, in pencil: C84-3, Carriage House 1, Frank P. Hamilton, 1984, Print 2

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DescriptionView of door, window, wall and stone foundation. Door left of center is mostly in shadow, dark tones, wood frame painted white. Stone foundation is large stones, runs across two ft. at bottom. Window is at right, again framing painted white. Sun shines at upper left corner of window and onto wooden slats of upper wall.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Photographs from the Permanent Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 8 – September 19, 1993, no cat.

Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 24, 2010 – January 2, 2011, no cat.

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Frank Hamilton was powerfully influenced by his study of Edward Weston prints in the Nelson-Atkins collection. Hamilton's technical precision and his quest to discover beauty in the local and the familiar is deeply inspired by Weston's purist aesthetic. Carriage House depicts a structure on Hamilton's former property in midtown Kansas City, while Missouri River Bottoms is characteristic of an extended series devoted to the landscape in which he grew up, in and around Platte County, Missouri. Fundamentally concerned with structure and luminosity, Hamilton is attentive to the subtle, ever-changing beauty of light and shadow.

After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute, Hamilton received an M.F.A. in design (photography) from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He has taught classes at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Johnson County Community College, Avila University, and Park University, among others.

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