Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman (Musée Orfila)
<p>Zoe Leonard, <em>Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman (Musée Orfila)</em>, 1991. Five gelatin silver prints, sheet (a): 35 3/8 × 24 1/4 in. (89.9 × 61.6 cm) Sheet (b): 23 9/16 × 16 5/16 in. (59.8 × 41.4 cm) Sheet (c): 30 3/4 × 21 in. (78.1 × 53.3 cm) Sheet (d): 35 5/8 × 24 3/8 in. (90.5 × 61.9 cm) Sheet (e): 265 × 18 9/16 in. (673.1 × 47.1 cm) Image (a): 33 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. (84.8 × 56.5 cm) Image (b): 21 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (55.2 × 36.8 cm) Image (c): 28 13/16 × 19 7/16 in. (73.2 × 49.4 cm) Image (d): 33 3/8 × 22 in. (84.8 × 55.9 cm) Image (e): 24 3/4 × 16 5/8 in. (62.9 × 42.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee, the Director’s Discretionary Fund, an anonymous donor, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Patricia Villareal, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, and Gregory V. Gooding in honor of Elisabeth Sherman 2018.187a-e. © Zoe Leonard</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1991
- Dimensions
- Sheet (a): 35 3/8 × 24 1/4 in. (89.9 × 61.6 cm) Sheet (b): 23 9/16 × 16 5/16 in. (59.8 × 41.4 cm) Sheet (c): 30 3/4 × 21 in. (78.1 × 53.3 cm) Sheet (d): 35 5/8 × 24 3/8 in. (90.5 × 61.9 cm) Sheet (e): 265 × 18 9/16 in. (673.1 × 47.1 cm) Image (a): 33 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. (84.8 × 56.5 cm) Image (b): 21 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (55.2 × 36.8 cm) Image (c): 28 13/16 × 19 7/16 in. (73.2 × 49.4 cm) Image (d): 33 3/8 × 22 in. (84.8 × 55.9 cm) Image (e): 24 3/4 × 16 5/8 in. (62.9 × 42.2 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Zoe Leonard
Artist
Photography
Zoe Leonard is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including Documenta IX and Documenta XII, and the 1993, 1997 and 2014 Whitney biennials. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.
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Record
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- Zoe Leonard
- Year
- 1991
- Dimensions
- Sheet (a): 35 3/8 × 24 1/4 in. (89.9 × 61.6 cm) Sheet (b): 23 9/16 × 16 5/16 in. (59.8 × 41.4 cm) Sheet (c): 30 3/4 × 21 in. (78.1 × 53.3 cm) Sheet (d): 35 5/8 × 24 3/8 in. (90.5 × 61.9 cm) Sheet (e): 265 × 18 9/16 in. (673.1 × 47.1 cm) Image (a): 33 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. (84.8 × 56.5 cm) Image (b): 21 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (55.2 × 36.8 cm) Image (c): 28 13/16 × 19 7/16 in. (73.2 × 49.4 cm) Image (d): 33 3/8 × 22 in. (84.8 × 55.9 cm) Image (e): 24 3/4 × 16 5/8 in. (62.9 × 42.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1991-172134
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified