Portrait (Ralph Müller)

1986

Thomas Ruff
German, born 1958

Status: On View, Gallery 1
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Thomas Ruff
Title: Portrait (Ralph Müller)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1986
Medium: Chromogenic print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; signed and inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "Th Ruff / 2/3 1988"
Dimensions: Frame: 164.5 × 130.2 × 3 cm (64 13/16 × 51 5/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lannan Foundation
Reference Number: 1997.125

D’Alessandro, Stephanie. 2002. “History by Degrees: The Place of the Past in Contemporary German Art.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 28. no. 1, p. 66-81. fig. 13.
Strick, Jeremy. 1999. “Fixed and Visible: Lannan Foundation and The Art Institute of Chicago.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 25. no. 1. p. 54.
Skestos, Stephanie. 1999. “Checklist of the Lannan Collection.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 25. no. 1. p. 95, cat. 61.
Westerbeck, Colin. 1999. “Highlights of the Lannan Collection.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 25. no. 1. p. 54-55 (color ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Sight-Set-Sequence: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” November 10-May 19, 2002. (Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “In the Vernacular,” February 6–May 31, 2010. (Greg Harris)

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