Nancy, Danville, Virginia

Artist Emmet Gowin (American, born 1941)

Date1969; printed 1980

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 5 3/8 × 6 13/16 inches (13.65 × 17.3 cm)
Sheet: 7 × 8 15/16 inches (17.78 × 22.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1399

SignedSignature and date on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "emmet gowin 1980"

InscribedOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Nancy. Davnille, Virginia 1969"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right corner, in pencil: 2 [circled] 4 WB."; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "Light #166 $500"

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DescriptionImage of little girl with eyes closed holding an egg in each hand with arms twisted.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Masters of 20th-Century Photography from the Hallmark Collection. Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Waterloo, IA, May 2 -June 13, 1982, no cat.

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.

Faces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no cat.

Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College, Highland, KS, October 19 - November 11, 1993, no cat.

Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.

Hide and Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2009 – February 14, 2010, no cat.

Rotation 11. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 17, 2011 – March 18, 2012, no cat.

The Photographs of Emmet Gowin. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 1 – November 8, 2015, no cat.

Gallery Label

Emmet Gowin is one of the most important and influential artists of his generation, both as a photographer and as a teacher. He studied with Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1960s and for many years has headed the photography program at Princeton University. Gowin came to national recognition in the early 1970s for his intimate and mysterious images of his immediate family. Since then, he has expanded the range of his interests to poetic and provocative vignettes of the natural and cultural landscape. All his work is characterized by a devotion to both the importance of what he depicts and the inherent beauty of the photographic process.

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