Eleanor Antin

Cardigan, Jubilee and their Party
1977

A vintage black and white photograph depicting a group of four horseback riders on a trail, with trees framing the top of the image and handwritten text at the bottom reading "Cardigan, Jubilee and their Party." The photo has a white border with rough edges, suggesting an old print.
A vintage black and white photograph depicting a group of four horseback riders on a trail, with trees framing the top of the image and handwritten text at the bottom reading "Cardigan, Jubilee and their Party." The photo has a white border with rough edges, suggesting an old print.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Mount: 30 3/8 × 22in. (77.2 × 55.9 cm) Sheet (sight): 11 15/16 × 15in. (30.3 × 38.1 cm)

Accession number
95.68.33

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/9782

Part of a series:
The Angel of Mercy: My Tour of Duty in the Crimea
38 works

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A vintage black and white photograph depicting a group of four horseback riders on a trail, with trees framing the top of the image and handwritten text at the bottom reading "Cardigan, Jubilee and their Party." The photo has a white border with rough edges, suggesting an old print.
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Eleanor Antin
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