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My Mother Opening a Door

Artist Keith Smith (American, born 1938)
DateMarch 1966
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 2 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches (5.72 × 31.75 cm)
Mount (irregular): 7 11/16 × 20 inches (19.53 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.157
SignedSigned and dated on mount recto, bottom, in pencil: “Keith", " March 1966”
InscribedTitled on mount recto, lower left, in pencil: “my mother opening a door”
Markingsnone
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DescriptionLong narrow image composed of a series of multiple narrow images printed next to one another. Images of a woman from waist down opening a door.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Keith Smith
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