Artist
Joan Lyons (American, born 1937)American, born 1937
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled
Date1976
Place depictedUnited States
MediumElectrostatic print
DimensionsImage: 17 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (44.5 × 33.7 cm)
Sheet: 25 7/8 × 19 in. (65.7 × 48.3 cm)
Sheet: 25 7/8 × 19 in. (65.7 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.286
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
This image is one of a series
in which Joan Lyons investigated the cultural stereotypes of femininity. Using
one of her graduate students as a model, she created an intimate, yet
problematic image of a woman divided between creating her own image and having
one formed for her by society.
Provenance[Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Repeated Exposure: Photographic Imagery in the Print Media," W.R. Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, 25 March - 9 May 1982 (LN:82.2)
Exhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right below image: Joan Lyons 1976
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