Peter Brown
Haircut

Haircut

© Peter Brown

Haircut
Haircut
ArtistAmerican, born 1948
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Haircut
Date1985, printed 2002
PlaceHeath, Massachusetts, United States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 14 13/16 in. (37.5 × 37.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 15 7/8 in. (50.6 × 40.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist in memory of his father, Robert McAfee Brown
Object number2002.475
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThe sun is setting in Peter Brown’s Haircut—an image featuring the artist’s mother and father outside the family’s summer home in Heath, Massachusetts. The picnic table has been cleared and the chairs arranged to watch the sunset, but in the meantime, one more chore remains: a haircut. Haircut lingers between a memoir and a family snapshot—a work simultaneously heavy with personal meaning but casually composed. Brown, a Houston-based photographer, is celebrated for his evocative images that convey a distinct sense of place and character. The artist has turned the lens on his own family, fixing these spatial and personal intimacies in a casually observed moment.

ProvenanceThe artist, Houston; given to MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, mat verso, lower right: Peter Brown / Haircut / Heath MA 1985
Signed in pencil, mat recto, lower right below image: Peter Brown 1985/2002

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