Object number2014.35.24
Vivian, Elizabeth and Murray, Longnook Beach
Date1980
Artist
Joel Meyerowitz
(American, born 1938)
CultureAmerican
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (24.4 x 19.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift from the Michael and Joyce Axelrod collection (Joyce Jacobson, class of 1961)
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn verso, signed lower center in ink: Joel Meyerowitz
InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper left in ink: 72y 36m / f8.5 6.3sec / #1100; lower center: Vivian, Elizabeth, Murray, Longneck Beach / 1980; by unidentified hand, lower right corner: 951; lower center edge: PF 110522
DescriptionColor image of three shirtless people, Vivian, Elizabeth, and Murray, wearing white pants and standing on a sandy beach with clothes and towels strewn in the foreground. One figure leans forward, almost horizontally, into the person standing at center, resting her hands on the other's shoulders. The figure at center stands with one leg forward in front of her and the other stretched behind. The male figure lunges forward and leans, also almost horizontally, towards the center figure and rests his hands on her behind.Terms
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