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Dye imbibition print, plate 12 from a portfolio of fourteen images (1974)
Edition
6 of 15
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, lower left, in black ink and graphite: "THIS IS PLATE [stamped in black ink] 12 [inscribed in graphite] OF A PORTFOLIO OF / FOURTEEN IMAGES PRINTED IN 1974 IN / AN EDITION OF FIFTEEN EXAMPLES OF / WHICH THIS IS [stamped in black ink] 6 [inscribed in graphite] . [stamped in black ink]; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "Wm [m underlined] Eggleston"
Gift of Patricia and Frank Kolodny in honor of Miles Barth
Reference Number
1977.670
Extended information about this artwork
Art Institute of Chicago, “When Color Was New,” February 24-April 29, 2007. (Katherine Bussard)
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008,” November 7, 2008–January 25, 2009; Haus der Kunst München, Munich, February 20–May 17, 2009; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 20–September 20, 2009; Art Institute of Chicago, February 27–May 23, 2010 (Katherine Bussard); and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 31, 2010–January 16, 2011. (Chicago only)
Art Institute of Chicago, “When Collecting Was New: Photographs from the Robert A. Taub Collection,” December 15, 2012–May 12, 2013. (Michal Raz-Russo)
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