Duane Michals
Sometimes Suddenly Something

Sometimes Suddenly Something

© Duane Michals. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York

Sometimes Suddenly Something
Sometimes Suddenly Something
ArtistAmerican, born 1932
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sometimes Suddenly Something
Date1992, printed 1994
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print with handwritten text
DimensionsImage: 6 × 8 15/16 in. (15.2 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 19 13/16 in. (40.5 × 50.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Harry and Macey Reasoner, Joan Morganstern, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan, Margaret C. and Louis Skidmore, Jr., Anne Wilkes Tucker and Joe D. Wheeler, Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein, Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Morris, and Beth and Lee Schlanger in memory of Eric Alexander
Object number94.192
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
text in ink, center below image
"SOMETIMES, SUDDENLY, SOMETHING ENORMOUS AND TERRIBLE / INTRUDES INTO PEOPLE'S LIVES, / A HARD SHADOW FALLS AND BREAKS THEM. / CRUEL CIRCUMSTANCES BRINGS THEM TO TEARS. / IN TIME THEY AGAIN DO THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE NORMALLY DO, / BUT THE RESIDUE OF SADNESS ALWAYS REMAINS. / NOT EVEN LOVE CAN MEND OR TIME RENEW, / AND NOTHING IS FORGIVEN."
below inscription in ink "Duane Michals 5/25"

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