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Silk Dress Coming

Ann Rhoney American
1982; printed 1987
Not on view
Frustrated by the distortions and expressive limitations of commercially produced color film, Rhoney uses oil paint to color her black-and-white photographs in a naturalistic style that allows for great chromatic subtlety yet fastidiously conceals its own artifice.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Silk Dress Coming
  • Artist: Ann Rhoney (American, born Niagara Falls, New York, 1953)
  • Date: 1982; printed 1987
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print with applied color
  • Dimensions: Image: 40.4 x 26.9 cm (15 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
    Sheet: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
    Frame: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund and Nion T. McEvoy Gift, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.419
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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