Cambridge (Sam, Bebe, and Clementine)
- Photographer
- Nicholas Nixon, American, born 1947
- Date
- 1986, printed c.1996
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- printed in
- Brookline, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (19.4 x 24.4 cm)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Funds given by Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Paul Dubinsky, and partial gift of the artist
- Rights
- © Nicholas Nixon, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Object Number
- 133:2003
NOTES
Nicholas Nixon's views of his family reveal a profound warmth and intimacy. There is also a visual playfulness inspired by the spontaneous and uninhibited poses of his children. This composition shows his wife, Bebe, and his two children, Clementine and Sam, tenderly interlocked through their arms. Nixon's framing verges on abstraction, leaving the viewer to contemplate the tangle of limbs that crisscross the picture frame.
Provenance
- 2003
Nicholas Nixon (b.1947), Brookline, MA, USA
2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from and given by the artist [1]
Note:
[1] Invoice dated May 19, 2003 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Commitee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.
Nicholas Nixon (b.1947), Brookline, MA, USA
2003 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from and given by the artist [1]
Note:
[1] Invoice dated May 19, 2003 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Commitee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2003.
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