Peter Brown
Haircut

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Artist Peter Brown (American, born 1948)American, 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

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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