John Dugdale
Self-portrait with Ancestor

Self-portrait with Ancestor
Self-portrait with Ancestor
Self-portrait with Ancestor
ArtistAmerican, born 1960
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Self-portrait with Ancestor
Date1990
PlaceUnited States
MediumCyanotype with artist's frame
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 in. (23.8 × 18.4 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 in. (23.8 × 18.4 cm)
Frame (outer): 16 5/16 × 14 1/8 × 1 5/8 in. (41.4 × 35.9 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of Edward Osowski
Object number97.11
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Houston Center for Photography, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1997.
Exhibition History"Self, Model, and Self as Other," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,13 July – 29 September, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Label, verso of frame: "From the Studio of/John Patrick Dugdale/No. 59 Morton Street, Manhattan, New York 10014/Title "Self-portrait with Ancestor" 1990 8 x 10/cyanotype/Edition: Artist's Proof #3/3/ Repesented By/ Wessel O'Connor Gallery/60 Thomas Street, Manhattan, New York 10013/ Telephone: 212 406-0040 Fax: 212 406-0141."
The work is signed in black ink, verso: "John Dugdale" with a drawing.

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