Eleanor Antin

Myself - 1853

1977

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

Not on view

Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 6 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (17.1 × 10.8 cm) Image (sight, irregular): 5 3/8 × 3 15/16 in. (13.7 × 10 cm) Mount: 18 × 13 in. (45.7 × 33 cm)

Accession number
95.67.23

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/9735

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 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.

Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017
Singular Visions

Dec 16, 2010–Aug 5, 2012

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

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Eleanor Antin

Myself - 1853

1977

Exhibitions

Eleanor Antin 67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions