Object number2008.7.11

Linda Cossey (and her camera)

Date1980

Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)

CultureAmerican

MediumInstant dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid Polacolor 2)

DimensionsImage: 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. (9.5 x 7.3 cm)
Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in honor of its 20th anniversary

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper edge in pencil: FA04.06936; lower right corner: RM

MarkingsOn recto, blindstamped lower right margin: © ANDY WARHOL; on verso, stamped lower left and right in blue ink (each within a circle): Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts [A / W at center]; The Estate / of / Andy Warhol; stamped lower center in black ink: POLACOLOR® 2 D011731

ProvenanceThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Vassar Exhibitions

Haunting Legacies: Photography and the Invisible

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection

DescriptionPortrait of a woman, Linda Cossey, with medium length strawberry blonde hair and blunt bangs from the chest up. She wears red lipstick and her eyes are caught partially open. A camera in the right side of the frame takes up a third of the composition.

Terms

female

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