John Byrne Cooke
Janis Joplin and Sam Andrew: Big Brother and the Holding Company

Artist John Byrne CookeAmerican, born 1940

CultureAmerican

Titles

Janis Joplin and Sam Andrew: Big Brother and the Holding Company

Date1968

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 18 15/16 × 12 5/8 in. (48.1 × 32 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 15 13/16 in. (50.7 × 40.2 cm)
Mount: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Clinton T. Willour in honor of Tom Champion

Object number2000.662

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceClinton T. Willour, Houston; given to MFAH, 2000.
Exhibition History"Famous/Infamous: Images of Celebrity from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, October 23–December 9, 2002.

"Rockin' and Rollin'," Galveston Arts Center, Texas, January 24–February 29, 2004.

"The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 20, 2008–January 19, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil on the mat and on the sheet lower right below image: "John Byrne Cooke"
verso of mat bottom right in ink " John Byrne Cooke "

Marked in pencil lower left below image: 68-6,36 2/40 "
verso of mat bottom right above signature in ink " 68-6, 36. print no. 2/40 "

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