Hoo St. Werburgh No. 4

Artist Michael Collins (English, born India, 1961)

Date2011

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage and sheet (est.): 48 × 60 inches (121.92 × 152.4 cm)
Mount (est.): 48 × 60 inches (121.92 × 152.4 cm)
Framed: 48 7/8 × 61 × 2 inches (124.14 × 154.94 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.68.12

SignedSignature label, white with black type and black pen: "Michael Collins / Hoo St Werburgh No.4, 2011 / Digital chromogenic print / Edition number 3 of 7 / [signature]"

Inscribednone

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 3/7

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Not on view

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DescriptionImage of dilapidated wooden boat that appears to have washed ashore and is decomposing in muddy marsh land.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 27. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 23, 2019–February 2, 2020, no cat.

Gallery Label

The remote industrial landscape of Hoo Peninsula, located in North Kent, England, served as inspiration for the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. Today, Michael Collins photographs the slow deterioration of this former industrial age site. Crumbling clay quarries and rotten boat hulls are evidence that time and tide have taken their toll on the area. Drawn to the austere landscape, Collins records these remnants of the past now reclaimed by nature.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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