We Mourn Our Loss

Photography and Media

1945

Lisette Model
American, born Austria, 1901–1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Lisette Model
Title: We Mourn Our Loss
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "9 1/4"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "CLM.481.3 x / [illegible] 25 [illegible]"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "3 [encircled]"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 32 × 27 cm (12 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1986.1383

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p.341, cat. 296.
Thomas, Ann. 1990. “Lisette Model.” Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, and University of Chicago Press. p. 207, pl. 61. (alternate title)

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Concerned Photographer,” March 18-June 11, 2006 (Katherine Bussard, Gregory Harris, and Newell G. Smith)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Max Kozloff: Critic and Photographer,” October 5, 2013–January 5, 2014. (Michal Raz-Russo)

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