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Artist/Maker
Justine Kurland
(American, born 1969)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2012 (printed 2019)
MediumArchival inkjet print
DimensionsImage: 11 1/4 in. × 14 in. (28.6 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 × 16 in. (33 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2020.5.3
Not on view
Description"Justine Kurland is best known for photographing subjects in American wilderness landscapes. Influences to her strongly narrative work include nineteenth-century English picturesque landscapes and the utopian ideal as well as genre paintings, photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mathew Brady, and illustrations from fairy tales. Kurland has used staged tableaux to explore the social landscape of girlhood, life on communes and in the wilderness, and traveling on the road with her son, Casper. Here, she photographs Casper in a moment of rest, framed by colorful hydrangeas." (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)
Additional Details
Provenance
2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Markings
No markings noted.
Signature
Signed by the artist on verso at center in black ink.
Inscribed
"5/50" on verso at center in black ink.
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