Grandmother, Brooklyn, New York

Artist Eugene Richards (American, born 1944)

Date1993

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 15 5/16 × 22 7/8 inches (38.89 × 58.09 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 23 7/8 inches (50.47 × 60.63 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2018.20.7

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Eugene Richards, 1993"

InscribedOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Grandmother, Brooklyn"

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DescriptionImage of a woman wearing a bathing suit and sunglasses sitting in a baby pool on the sidewalk next to a fire hydrant which is spraying water. Next to her, a young girl smiles as she throws water from a pan. Two other women sit in lawn chairs at the street corner where the buildings are covered in graffiti.Provenance

Provenance

The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.

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