Jayne Hinds Bidaut
The Artist's Hands: Paul Himmel at Age 84 & Lillian Bassman at Age 80

The Artist's Hands:  Paul Himmel at Age 84 & Lillian Bassman at Age 80
The Artist's Hands: Paul Himmel at Age 84 & Lillian Bassman at Age 80
ArtistAmerican, born 1965
ArtistAmerican, 1858–1866
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Artist's Hands: Paul Himmel at Age 84 & Lillian Bassman at Age 80
  • (Case) The Apple Picker
Date1998
PlaceUnited States
MediumTintypes in antique case
DimensionsImage (Each of two): 2 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (7.1 × 6.1 cm)
Closed: 3 7/8 × 3 7/16 × 1 1/8 in. (9.8 × 8.7 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mundy
Object number99.88
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition History"Turning Light Into Silver", 19 February - 30 May 2005, Audrey Jones Beck Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, lower level.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The tintypes are unsigned.

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recto 2000.637
Jayne Hinds Bidaut
2000
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2000.637
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Jayne Hinds Bidaut
1999
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2007.1691
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Unknown
1860s–1870s
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1867
Tintypes
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[Back and Front Portraits]
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1870–1880
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2022.462.A,.B
Untitled
Littlefield, Parsons & Co.
c. 1865
Tintypes and ambrotypes
2004.1459.A-.D
Mel Ziegler
2000
Antique display case and straw
2002.420
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Unknown American
c. 1855
Daguerreotype and tintype in leather case
2003.644.A,.B
Untitled
Unknown American
c. 1865
Tintype in leather case
2003.499