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Crumpled reflective black foil filling the frame with rough, shiny wrinkles.

Photographs

The Wayfarer 1980

James Welling

1980

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on board
Dimensions
Mount (board): 3 7/8 × 4 15/16 × 1/16 in. (9.8 × 12.5 × 0.2 cm) Sheet: 3 7/8 × 4 15/16 in. (9.8 × 12.5 cm) Image: 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (9.5 × 12.1 cm) Mount (mat board): 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Accession number
96.29
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Department
collection

About this work

James Welling, The Wayfarer 1980, 1980. Gelatin silver print mounted on board, mount (board): 3 7/8 × 4 15/16 × 1/16 in. (9.8 × 12.5 × 0.2 cm) Sheet: 3 7/8 × 4 15/16 in. (9.8 × 12.5 cm) Image: 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (9.5 × 12.1 cm) Mount (mat board): 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 96.29

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