2006.287: 1863
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.287
- People
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Fred Wilson, American (Bronx, NY born 1954)
Printed by Pamplemousse Press
Published by Pace Editions, Inc., American
- Title
- 1863
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 2006
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317620
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink jet digital print with glassine overlay
- Technique
- Ink jet digital print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 48.9 x 68.9 cm (19 1/4 x 27 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l. r. in graphite pencil: Fred Wilson 2006
- inscription: lower left of glassine overlay in graphite pencil: 28/35
- inscription: lower right of glassine overlay in graphite pencil: Fred Wilson 2006
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Pace Prints, New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, December 2006.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 28/35
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Fred Wilson
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.287
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Ink jet digital print ("Camp of Massachusetts Sixth Regt. Vols. Suffolk, Va.") with glassine overlay. Oval cut-out in glassine overlay lower left, surrounding female figure hanging laundry.
- Commentary
- Wilson, who lives and works in NY, is best known for his site-specific installations, or more appropriately, "re-installations," of museum and other institutional collections to reflect the absence or negation of African American art, life, and culture. This print functions analogously-Wilson has taken an 1863 lithograph depicting a Massachusetts regiment of Union soldiers at their encampment, copied it, and then printed it as a digital image. The resulting digital print is covered with a translucent sheet of interleaf, obscuring the overall image. A small hole however reveals the single black figure in the composition-a washerwoman at the fringe, hanging up laundry to dry. Through his manipulation of the historical image, Wilson reveals the invisibility of the laundress, and more pointedly, the invisibility of blacks and their work in the history of the Civil War, and ultimately this country.
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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