Penny Smith, Woodman, Wisconsin

Currently not on view

Penny Smith, Woodman, Wisconsin

1974

Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)

Lee Friedlander’s picture of a girl standing on a backyard swing appears to be captured from the flow of life. Yet the girl’s pose recalls the central figure in Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, a much-reproduced fifteenth-century Italian painting. Friedlander, too, presents us with a significant motif, but by recognizing it in the fleeting world around him rather than creating it in a studio.

Currently not on view

Object Details

Title:

Penny Smith, Woodman, Wisconsin

Date:

1974

Artist:

Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)

Medium:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

Image: 11 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (28.6 × 19.1 cm) Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 inches (35.4 × 27.9 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Gift of Virginia Zabriskie, 1988

Accession Number:

1988-56-10

Geography:

Photograph taken in Woodman, Wisconsin, United States, North and Central America

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Currently not on view