Debbie Grossman
Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery and their baby

Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery and their baby
Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery and their baby
Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery and their baby
ArtistAmerican, born 1977
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery and their baby
  • from the series My Pie Town
Date2010
Place depictedPie Town, New Mexico, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 14 in. (26.7 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)
Mat: 16 1/2 × 20 1/4 in. (41.9 × 51.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nina and Michael Zilkha in memory of Christopher Hitchens
Object number2014.211
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Using Photoshop, Debbie Grossman cleverly altered photographs
of rural homesteaders in Pie Town, New Mexico, taken by Russell Lee for the
Farm Security Administration. The original images from 1940 were intended to capture
the hardy, pioneering spirit of rural America. Grossman was drawn to the
utopian ideal of community in Lee’s images, but as a modern, queer woman, she
saw there would have been no room for someone like her in Pie Town. Grossman’s
pictorial intervention creates an alternative history in which the Pie Town homesteaders
are entirely women, and the town’s families—as in this photograph— are headed
by same-sex couples.



ProvenanceThe artist; [Julie Saul Gallery, New York, 2010]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right to left in pencil: Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife...2010/2012 My Pie Town Portfolio 2/5
verso bottom right in pencil: artist's mark

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