Anne Phelps
Ann Parker, Avon Neal American Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Artist Avon Neal and photographer Ann Parker were a husband-and-wife duo interested in vernacular or everyday art forms. For A Portfolio of Rubbings from Early American Stone Sculpture, Neal and Parker traveled across New England to examine and preserve the imagery and epitaphs inscribed on graveyard headstones, made by unknown Puritan sculptors. Through the inscriptions, we can follow the political climate, linguistic developments, and the advancement of the form itself. These tombstones were exposed to the elements and rapidly deteriorating; the rubbings preserve images and lives that otherwise would be lost to time.
PORTFOLIO/SERIES
From: "A Portfolio of Rubbings from Early American Stone Sculpture"
MEDIUM
Stone rubbing in crayon on paper
DATES
1963
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 22 13/16 × 33 7/8 in. (57.9 × 86 cm)
image: 18 1/4 × 28 1/8 in. (46.4 × 71.4 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right in graphite: "Ann Parker/Avon Neal"
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed lower left in graphite: " Anne Phelps, Windsor, Vermont 1797. Large Portfolio 11/50"
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
64.19.14
CREDIT LINE
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Ann Parker. Anne Phelps, 1963. Stone rubbing in crayon on paper, sheet: 22 13/16 × 33 7/8 in. (57.9 × 86 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 64.19.14. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.19.14_acetate_bw.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: 11/50 of the Large Portfolio
IMAGE
overall, 64.19.14_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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