Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Rascals

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Artist Earlie Hudnall, Jr.American, born 1946

CultureAmerican

Titles

Rascals

Date1991

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 15 × 18 3/4 in. (38.1 × 47.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 16 in. (50.2 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins

Object number2013.714

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionBorn in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, but a Houstonian since 1968, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., has made the everyday lives of African Americans his abiding subject. “I chose the camera as a tool to document different aspects of life,” he wrote, “who we are, what we do, how we live, what our communities look like. . . . My photographs are archetypes of my own childhood.” Although his photographs have sometimes focused on the more difficult aspects of life, the joy of children playing in the street, mugging for the camera, and mimicking the attitudes of adults has also been a recurring subject and uplifting theme in his work.
Provenance[Houston Center for Photography Print Auction, Houston, 1990s]; purchased by Michael Marvins and Michele Marvins, Houston; given to MFAH, 2013.
Exhibition History“A Photographer’s Collection: Gifts from Michael and Michele Marvins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 4–July 5, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on verso lower left in pencil: Rascals (signature) 1991

Signed Earlie Hudnall, Jr.,1991, verso lower left in pencil.

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