Nicholas Nixon
Summer Cottage Camp, Chatham, Massachusetts

Summer Cottage Camp, Chatham, Massachusetts

© 1976 Nicholas Nixon; courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Summer Cottage Camp, Chatham, Massachusetts
Summer Cottage Camp, Chatham, Massachusetts
ArtistAmerican, born 1947
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Summer Cottage Camp, Chatham, Massachusetts
Date1976
Place depictedChatham, Massachusetts, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 9 11/16 in. (19.7 × 24.6 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 7/8 in. (20.3 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Morgan Garwood
Object number2014.185
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAfter moving to Boston in 1974, Nicholas Nixon took his camera to rooftops as a way to learn his new city, capturing views with great clarity using a large-format camera, an approach he soon expanded to include New York and other sites. A year later, he began his best known body of work, an ongoing series of annual portraits of his wife and her three sisters. While he is best known for portrait series schoolchildren, the elderly and ailing, and his family, Nixon has continued step back, literally and metaphorically, to focus his lens on the changing urban landscape as a structural counterpoint to the personal scale of his portraits.
ProvenanceMorgan Garwood, New York; bequeathed to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“A Critical Eye: Mid-Century American Photographs from the Morgan Garwood Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23–November 2, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom left in pencil "Summer Cottage Camp Chatham, Massachusetts 1976"
bottom right in ink "8006"
verso bottom right in pencil "Nicholas Nixon"

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