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Living Room (Model Home, Birchtree Condominiums, Ottawa)
Living Room (Model Home, Birchtree Condominiums, Ottawa)

Living Room (Model Home, Birchtree Condominiums, Ottawa)

Artist Lynne Cohen (American, 1944 - 2014)
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 9/16 × 9 9/16 inches (19.21 × 24.29 cm)
Mount: 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2010.46.9
SignedSigned on mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "Cohen"
InscribedOn mount verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "Living Room / Model Home / Birchtree Condominium / Ottawa / 1976"
MarkingsOn mount verso, lower left, in pencil: "619.082.3.09"; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "LCO1716".
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of man and woman cutouts suspended from ceiling with potted fern between them.Exhibition History
Rotation 22. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 10, 2016- January 8, 2017, no cat.
Gallery Label

Lynne Cohen began photographing empty interior spaces in the early 1970s, including family rooms, offices and classrooms. In part, she was driven by the question: What are these places without people in them? In this image, human presence is implied through figural elements of seated silhouettes. The absence of actual people in these spaces, however, charges the settings with an uncomfortable sense of absence and loss.

 

Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2010;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2010.
Copyright© Estate of Lynne Cohen
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