Eleanor Antin

Secrets
1977

A vintage black and white photograph mounted on brown paper featuring two women reclining on the grass, with one reading a book and the other looking into the distance. The scene is peaceful with foliage in the background. There is a signature in the lower left corner of the mounting paper.
A vintage black and white photograph mounted on brown paper featuring two women reclining on the grass, with one reading a book and the other looking into the distance. The scene is peaceful with foliage in the background. There is a signature in the lower left corner of the mounting paper.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Mount: 18 × 13in. (45.7 × 33 cm) Sheet (Sight): 4 7/8 × 8 1/8in. (12.4 × 20.6 cm) Image (Sight): 4 3/4 × 8in. (12.1 × 20.3 cm) Frame: 19 × 14 × 1 1/2in. (48.3 × 35.6 × 3.8 cm)

Accession number
95.67.12

Edition
1/1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

API
artworks/9724

Part of a series:

The Angel of Mercy: The Nightingale Family Album

25 works

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Eleanor Antin
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