Mark Kessell
Minimum Elements I

ArtistAustralian, born 1958
CultureAustralian
Titles
  • Minimum Elements I
Date2000
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsImage: 5 × 4 in. (12.7 × 10.2 cm)
Frame: 14 × 13 × 1 1/2 in. (35.6 × 33 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joan Morgenstern in honor of Del Zogg
Object number2002.470
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceJoan Morgenstern, Houston; given to MFAH, 2002.
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
Back label from " Ricco/Maresca Gallery / 529 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011 / (212) 627 4819"

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