Eleanor Antin

The Problem of the Drainage

1977

Seven people in period clothing gather outdoors while men examine an object on the ground.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 6 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (17.5 × 25.2 cm) Image (sight): 6 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (17.1 × 24.8 cm) Mount: 18 × 13 in. (45.7 × 33 cm)

Accession number
95.67.2

Edition
1/1

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

API
artworks/9714

Part of a series:
The Angel of Mercy: The Nightingale Family Album
25 works

A Victorian-era man in a top hat chats with a woman in a full skirt while a child reads nearby.

A group of people in period dresses play blind man's buff outdoors on a grassy patch.

Woman in a long period dress and bonnet stands on a porch holding flowers near a window.

Three people in historical clothing stand under a tree, one person playing a guitar.

People in period clothing sing while a woman plays piano and a man gestures toward the window, captioned 'Country Air'.

A woman in a dark 19th-century dress stands beside a small statue on a draped table.

A seated woman in a dark dress with lace collar, inscription below reads "Myself 1854".

A woman in a historical maid uniform stands with hands clasped, wearing a lace cap.

A man helps a girl in a dress swing higher while holding the ropes.

Three women in period clothing sit and stand on a porch, one woman looking out over foliage.

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

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Eleanor Antin

The Problem of the Drainage

1977

Eleanor Antin 67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions