Port Washington, July 1973
Series TitleDaily Self-Portraits: Port Washington
Artist
Melissa Shook
(American, 1939 - 2020)
DateJuly 1973
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 5/16 × 4 1/4 inches (10.95 × 10.8 cm)
Sheet and mount: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Sheet and mount: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.20.221
SignedSigned on mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "Melissa Shook"
InscribedOn sheet recto, lower left, in black pen: "Port Washington";
On sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "July 1973";
On mount verso, left edge, in black pen: "Aunt Marion took the dishes away as soon as, or even before, everyone finished eating, so she could wash them -"
Markingsnone
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Terms
Purchased from Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.
Copyright© Kristina Shook & The Estate of M. Melissa Shook
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