Ray K. Metzker
Whimsy #4

Whimsy #4

© Estate of Ray K. Metzker, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Whimsy #4
Whimsy #4
ArtistAmerican, 1931–2014
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Whimsy #4
Date1974
PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (10.8 × 10.8 cm)
Frame: 10 3/4 × 10 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (27.3 × 27.3 × 3.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lilyan and Toby Miller
Object number84.319
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In his 1974 series Whimsy, Ray K. Metzker combined four small out-of-focus, cropped views of leaves into an abstract diamond-shaped collage. He intended his black-and-white graphic construction to be open to each viewer’s interpretation, like a Rorschach test.


Provenance[Laurence Miller Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1984.

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