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recto sheet overall
Landscape/Loftscape #1
recto sheet overall
recto sheet overall

Landscape/Loftscape #1

Artist Marcia Resnick (American, 1950 - 2025)
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsImage (.1): 8 1/8 × 11 7/8 inches (20.64 × 30.16 cm)
Image (.2): 8 × 11 13/16 inches (20.32 × 30 cm)
Sheet (.1): 15 15/16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.48 × 50.48 cm)
Sheet (.2): 15 15/16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.48 × 50.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2009.37.12.1,2
Signed1) Signed and dated on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "marcia resnick 1976" 2) Signed and dated on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "marcia resnick 1976"
Inscribed1) On sheet recto, bottom, below image, in pencil: "LOFTSCAPE#1 FROM LANDSCAPE-LOFTSCAPE MARCIA RESNICK"; On sheet verso, top, in pencil: "TOP / LOFT #1 / BACK COVER"; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "Loftscape #1 from landscape-loftscape". 2) On sheet recto, bottom below image, in pencil: "LANDSCAPE #1 FROM LANDSCAPE-LOFTSCAPE MARCIA RESNICK"; On sheet verso, top, in pencil: "TOP / LAND #1 / FRONT COVER"; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "LANDSCAPE #1".
Markings1) On sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: "30% + 50%" 2) On sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: "30% + 50%"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionA Diptych: One image is of two clouds in the sky and the other image is of cotton made to look like the same clouds in the sky.Exhibition History

Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 15 June-13 November 2011, no cat

Rotation 22. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 10, 2016- January 8, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label

In her Landscape/Loftscape series, Marcia Resnick pairs two photographs of deceptively similar subjects. The top image, taken outdoors, serves as a model for the bottom picture, which depicts a miniature studio recreation, cobbled from various materials found around Resnick’s New York City loft. These whimsical pairings call into question the way we read photographs as "truthful" depictions of their subjects.

Provenance
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2009;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2009.
Copyright© Marcia Resnick
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