Herb Ritts
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Point Dume

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Point Dume

© Herb Ritts Foundation

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Point Dume
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Point Dume
ArtistAmerican, 1952–2002
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Point Dume
Date1987
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 11/16 × 10 1/8 in. (32.2 × 25.7 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 11/16 in. (35.6 × 27.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1981
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower edge: "JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE POINT DUNE 1984 / 13/25 [signature]

Embossed recto of sheet, lower right: "© HERB RITTS"
Signed in pencil, verso, lower right

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