Laurie Simmons

Untitled
1986

Black and white photo of a man with a ventriloquist dummy on his lap, looking up at a woman holding a miniature dummy.
Black and white photo of a man with a ventriloquist dummy on his lap, looking up at a woman holding a miniature dummy.

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Date
1986

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photogravure

Dimensions
Sheet: 33 9/16 × 26 11/16in. (85.2 × 67.8 cm) Image: 19 1/16 × 12 9/16in. (48.4 × 31.9 cm)

Accession number
91.82.2

Edition
AP 10/10 | Ed. 40

Publication
Printed by Derrière l'Étoile Studios; published by Editions Ilene Kurtz

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ilene Kurtz

Rights and reproductions
© 1986 Laurie Simmons

API
artworks/7669

Part of a series:
Ventriloquism
3 works

Black and white photograph of a man in a suit and glasses holding hands with a smiling child, with a winding path and another person in the background, all set within a white border.
Black and white photo of a man with a ventriloquist dummy on his lap, looking up at a woman holding a miniature dummy.
A puppet with a human-like appearance, featuring gray hair and a wide smile, wearing a red cardigan over a shirt with a pattern of flowers and a bird. The background is partially visible, showing a blurred control panel with various buttons and screens.

Laurie Simmons
39 works in the collection

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