Woman/Interior I

1976

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Laurie Simmons began her career in 1976 with a series of enchantingly melancholic photographs of toy dolls set up in her apartment. The accessible mix of desire and anxiety in these early photographs resonates with, and provides a useful counterpoint to, Cindy Sherman’s contemporaneous "film stills" such as Untitled Film Still #48 seen nearby. Simmons and Sherman were foundational members of one of the most vibrant and productive communities of artists to emerge in the late twentieth century. Although they did not all see themselves as feminists or even as a unified group of "women artists," each used the camera to examine the prescribed roles of women, especially in the workplace, and in advertising, politics, literature, and film.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Woman/Interior I
Artist: Laurie Simmons (American, born 1949)
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (14.6 × 19.1 cm)
Framed: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
Curatorial Department: Photographs