Object number2014.35.10

Family on Sand Bar

Date1984

Artist Joel Meyerowitz (American, born 1938)

CultureAmerican

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift from the Michael and Joyce Axelrod collection (Joyce Jacobson, class of 1961)

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn verso, signed lower center in ink: Joel Meyerowitz

InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper left corner in ink: E-1 45 7.5 f22 6.8 / 1[circled]; lower center: Family on Sand Bar [signature] 1984; by unidentified hand, lower right corner: 544; lower center edge: PF 110115

DescriptionColor image of a man and a woman with three small children at the edge of the coast with buckets. They all wear a mix of red and white clothes and a small white boat is visible in the water behind them at left. The photographer's tripod shadow is visible in the foreground at left.

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