Clementine and Bebe, Cambridge
Artist
Nicholas Nixon
(American, born 1947)
Date1985
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 inches (19.53 × 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2006
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "Nicholas Nixon"
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "Cambridge 1985 (10)"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "53-10-86"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of woman with bare shoulders looking down towards a baby's tiny fist in the lower right corner.Exhibition History
Rotation 22. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, August 10, 2016- January 8, 2017, no cat.
In this intimate photograph, Nicholas Nixon photographs his wife Bebe holding their newborn daughter, Clementine. The soft expanse of Bebe’s flesh serves as a backdrop against which Clementine raise her tiny fist in a small but mighty assertion of her presence in the world.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1986;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Nicholas Nixon
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