Kenji Nakahashi
Pecan

Pecan

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Pecan
Pecan
ArtistJapanese, 1947–2017
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Pecan
Date1987, printed 1993
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 13/16 × 9 5/16 in. (32.5 × 23.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.3 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor in memory of Kenji Nakahashi and in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2018.619
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Kenji Nakahashi was perpetually curious, and his everyday observations and encounters living in New York became the premise of his artistic inquiries. In this photograph, Nakahashi’s placement of the pecan in the decontextualized void of the studio introduces uncertainty to the scale of the nut, allowing it to take on myriad associations ranging from landscape to the human body. This sort of photographic experimentation is characteristic of Nakahashi’s conceptually driven work that explores the materiality of everyday objects.



ProvenanceThe artist, New York; Private collection; given to MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History"Cutting out the Sky: Kenji Nakahashi – Selections from the Museum’s Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 13, 2019–January 1, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black ink, verso, top center edge: [arrow] up
Signed and stamped in black ink, verso, top left edge: "PECAN" 1987 K. Nakahashi [signed] Kenji Nakahashi [stamped]
Inscribed and stamped in black ink, verso, bottom left edge: Printed by Kenji Nakahashi [stamped] in 1993

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