Michael Silver
John Milton Cage, Escaping the Frame

ArtistAmerican, 1947 - 2004
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • John Milton Cage, Escaping the Frame
Date1992
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 9 11/16 × 7 3/4 in. (24.6 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (36.8 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in memory of Dominique de Menil, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2550
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Foundation Gallery, September 20, 2008 - January 19, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in pencil, recto of sheet, below image: "John Cage-'Escaping the Frame'-[signature] 92 / #18"
Signed illegibly, recto of sheet, below lower right of image, in pencil.

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