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Miscegenated Family Album

Lorraine O'Grady

Photography

On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Counterparts
MEDIUM Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome)
DATES 1994
DIMENSIONS 32 prints each: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) frame (16 frames each): 38 1/8 × 27 1/2 in. (96.8 × 69.9 cm) frame (a's, b's, c's, d's, e's, g's, i's, k's, l's, m's, n's, o's, p's): 27 1/4 × 38 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (69.2 × 97.2 × 3.8 cm) frame (h1-h2): 38 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (97.2 × 69.2 × 3.8 cm)  (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER 2008.80
CREDIT LINE Purchased with funds given by John and Barbara Vogelstein and Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons and bequest of Richard J. Kempe, by exchange
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION 32 photographs in pairs - 16 frame units
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Counterparts
CAPTION Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Miscegenated Family Album, 1994. Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome), 32 prints each: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by John and Barbara Vogelstein and Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons and bequest of Richard J. Kempe, by exchange, 2008.80. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Image courtesy of Gracie Mansion Gallery, CUR.2008.80.jpg)
EDITION Edition: 6/8
IMAGE installation, CUR.2008.80.jpg. Image courtesy of Gracie Mansion Gallery
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RIGHTS STATEMENT © Lorraine O'Grady
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