Cy DeCosse
Water Lily

ArtistAmerican, born 1929
Publisherfounded 1998
Titles
  • Water Lily
  • The Gardens of DeCosse
  • 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography - Volume IV, Museum Edition #XX
Date1999, printed 2002
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (20 × 20 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 13 1/2 in. (38.1 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern and Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2002.75.41
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Leo & Wolfe Photography, Inc., Brewster, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil lower left below image: "20/50"
Signed in pencil, lower right below image: "Cy DeCosse"

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