Artist
Deanna M. Witman(American, born 1973)American, born 1973
CultureAmerican
Titles
- #00125 Verbena hastata
- from the series Index
Date2018
PlaceWarren, Maine, United States
MediumGum bichromate with applied color and gold leaf
DimensionsImage: 22 3/16 × 14 13/16 in. (56.3 × 37.7 cm)
Sheet: 22 3/16 × 14 13/16 in. (56.3 × 37.7 cm)
Sheet: 22 3/16 × 14 13/16 in. (56.3 × 37.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2020.133
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
For her series Index, Deanna M. Witman collects plant samples from a riverbank near her home on the coast of Maine and creates cameraless photographic documents of life that will one day be lost to climate change. Witman has written, "Reminiscent of herbarium records, the flora are memorialized and serve as a baseline against the impending change of increasing temperatures and rising waters. My small area of intertidal marsh will not be spared and will bear impact of these changes."
ProvenanceThe artist, Maine; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
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Kerik Kouklis
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2004.1674