Sally Mann
Semaphore

Semaphore

© 2003 Sally Mann

Semaphore
Semaphore
ArtistAmerican, born 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Semaphore
  • from the series Proud Flesh
Date2003
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 15 × 13 1/2 in. (38.1 × 34.3 cm)
Frame: 21 3/4 × 20 × 1 1/2 in. (55.2 × 50.8 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2010.164
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Gagosian Gallery, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2010.
Exhibition History"Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 4–May 28, 2018; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 30–September 23, 2018; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 20, 2018–February 10, 2019; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 3–May 27, 2019; Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 16–September 15, 2019; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 13, 2019–January 5, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in ink on a paper label adhered to verso backboard: "Sally Mann / © 2003 / 1/5"
Printed label on verso backboard: "GAGOSIAN GALLERY / 980 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK NY 10021 / SALLY MANN / Semaphore, 2003 / ... / Edition #: 1/5 / (MANN 2003.0002 / Studio Nude #15)"

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