DETAILS
- Artist
- Adrian Piper
- Date
- 1975
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print with oil crayon
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 25.3 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Photography and Media
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Samuel A. Marx Purchase Fund for Major Acquisitions; Maurice D. Galleher, Laura T. Magnuson, and General Acquisitions endowment funds; Photography Associates Fund; Wentworth G. Field Fund; Samuel P. Avery Endowment Fund; Highland Park Associates Fund; Charles U. Harris Endowment Fund
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