A color photograph of a person in clown face make-up.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The color photograph shows a person crouching with multiple colored stuffed animals draped around their shoulders. The sitter is looking up and slightly to the left. Their nose is painted red, the paint extends down and around their mouth in a circle. Their lips are outlined with black and painted white. White paint surrounds their eyes, two black half-moons cover their eyebrows. Their gloved hands are pressed together and raised. They’re wearing horizontally stripped multi-colored trousers.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.21.8
People
Cindy Sherman, American (Glenridge, New Jersey born 1954)
Title
Untitled
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Merce Cunningham Dance Company: 50th Anniversary Photography Portfolio
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
2003
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/5181

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Digital C-print
Technique
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 71.4 x 47.3 cm (28 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
sheet: 91.5 x 76 cm (36 x 29 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, center, in blue ink: Cindy Sherman
  • inscription: verso, center, blue ink, signed, in artist's hand: Cindy Sherman [over] 39/40 2003

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
39/40

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs and Kenyon C. Bolton III Fund
Copyright
© Cindy Sherman
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.21.8
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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