Artist
Nina Katchadourian(American, born 1968)American, born 1968
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Indian History for Young Folks
- from the series Sorted Books
Date2012
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 12 × 19 in. (30.5 × 48.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 19 in. (30.5 × 48.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 19 in. (30.5 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2018.35
Not on view
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Katchadourian’s series Sorted Books exposes the character of book
collections through improvisational arrangements. She created Indian History
for Young Folks from volumes in the M. G. Sawyer Collection of Decorative
Bindings at the Delaware Art Museum: “I noticed a curious surge in late
19th-century fiction romanticizing Native Americans and despaired when I
realized how this coincided with their violent displacement and decimation.” Katchadourian
questions what hidden stories collected possessions might reveal.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black and white, verso, frame border: EAST FRAMES // FINE CUSTOM FRAMING // [...] // ULTRAVOLET [SIC] FILTERING PLEXI GLASS/OP-3/OP2 // [...]
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