New York in Color

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© Justine Kurland. Image courtesy of Higher Pictures Generation LLC.
New York in Color
© Justine Kurland. Image courtesy of Higher Pictures Generation LLC.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1969)
Date2021
MediumCollage (hardcover)
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (51.4 × 29.8 cm) Frame: 25 × 16 7/16 in. (63.5 × 41.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2021.14
On view
DescriptionPhotographer Justine Kurland eviscerates her personal library of canonical photobooks by predominantly straight white men as part of her ongoing SCUMB (Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books) project, “reauthoring” the remaining fragments into a collage that she pastes onto the cover of each cut-up book.
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Provenance 2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Higher Pictures Generation LLC.
Signature Signed on verso on book binding left center in red ink
Inscribed "Ernst Haas New York in Color 1952-1962 [Prestel logo and name]" on verso on book binding center.
© Justine Kurland. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
Hydrangea
Justine Kurland
Date: 2012 (printed 2019)
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.5.3
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Anti-Pornography Demonstration, Times Square, New York City, USA
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.9
Halt!, from "Harper's Weekly"
Halt!, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 17, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.255
© Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton …
Koinobori (eggs in the belly)
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka
Date: 2021
Medium: Sumi paintings on washi, linocut on washi, rice bags, indigo, kakishibu, and gyotaku on washi, konnyaku, and handmade deckle box gampi paper
Object number: 2024.15
Photo by John Bentham.
Beluga Whale - Delphinapterus leucas, from the series "Animalia / Creatures"
Henry Horenstein
Date: 1995-2001
Medium: Cibachrome
Object number: 2019.18.14
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Hommages à GB WL TSE EP
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1937
Medium: Watercolor on paper, mounted on cardboard
Object number: 1996.10
Photograph by John Bentham.
Untitled
Silvia Taccani
Date: 1989
Medium: 12 Polaroid SX-70 prints mounted to mat board
Object number: 1991.218
Photograph by John Bentham.
New York City, from the portfolio “Women are Beautiful”
Garry Winogrand
Date: 1969, published 1982
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.29.1
Photograph by John Bentham.
Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House
Walker Evans
Date: 1935, printed later
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2005.2.1
© Alison Saar. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton,…
Stanch
Alison Saar
Date: 2017
Medium: Woodcut on vintage linen seed sacks
Object number: 2017.16.2
Photograph by John Bentham.
Red-figure calyx-krater (mixing vessel)
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: 350-320 BCE
Medium: Polychrome terracotta with slip and pigment
Object number: 1929.30
A Republican Form of Government, and No Domestic Violence, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Republican Form of Government, and No Domestic Violence, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published March 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.273