Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Girl in Screen Door, South Carolina
1977, printed 1997

A black and white photograph of a child peering through a screen window, resting their chin on their crossed arms, with a contemplative expression. The texture of the screen adds a grainy overlay to the image.

A black and white photograph of a child peering through a screen window, resting their chin on their crossed arms, with a contemplative expression. The texture of the screen adds a grainy overlay to the image.

On view
Floor 7

Date
1977, printed 1997

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm) Image: 13 1/8 × 8 13/16in. (33.3 × 22.4 cm)

Accession number
2001.191

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Michael I. Jacobs in honor of Sylvia Wolf

Rights and reproductions
© Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

API
artworks/15287

Exhibitions

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands

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Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
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