Whimsy #4
Artist
Ray K. Metzker (American, 1931–2014)American, 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)
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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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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Ray K. Metzker
1968
Portfolio of 10 gelatin silver prints
2025.367.1-.10
