Cornelia Rutgers Livingston
For his series Permanent Collection, Davis photographed paintings on display in various museums across the country, shooting from a slightly oblique angle to emphasize the reflective glare of the museum lighting on the paintings’ surfaces. Here, a glimmering burst of light mysteriously obliterates the face and raised hand of a young girl in a portrait by the nineteenth-century American painter Henry Inman on display in the New Britain Museum of Art in Connecticut.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cornelia Rutgers Livingston
- Artist: Tim Davis (American, born Blantyre, 1969)
- Date: 2003
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Image: 132.1 x 101.6 cm (52 x 40 in.)
Frame: 133.4 × 102.9 × 5.1 cm (52 1/2 × 40 1/2 × 2 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Susan and Arthur Fleischer Jr., 2011
- Object Number: 2011.555.8
- Rights and Reproduction: © Courtesy of the artist and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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