Projection Screen
Artist
Doug Prince
(American, born 1943)
Date1983
MediumPlexi box with gelatin silver on celluloid
DimensionsMount with vitrine: 9 1/2 × 9 × 7 inches (24.13 × 22.86 × 17.78 cm)
Object under vitrine: 5 3/16 × 5 × 2 1/2 inches (13.18 × 12.7 × 6.35 cm)
Object under vitrine: 5 3/16 × 5 × 2 1/2 inches (13.18 × 12.7 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.6.12
SignedSigned, dated, and editioned, bottom of Plexi box, center, etched: "Doug Prince 18/20, 1983"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 18/20
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionThree-dimensional square viewing box containing images (on black and white transparency film) between layers of Plexiglas panels. Together the images show a projection screen in a dark room revealing a man in a striped shirt who is holding an ore while standing in a boat in the middle of a body of water. Behind him is a large building with formal columns, a dome, and a tower.ProvenanceThe Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Douglas Prince
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