Peter Hujar
1934-1987
Sheep, Pennsylvania
1969
sheet: 20 x 16 inches; image: 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches
Gelatin silver print
Purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund.
2013.108:1.74
© The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso: stamp, "The Estate of Peter Hujar, Stephen Koch Executor, Printed by the Artist"; stamp, "Copyright 1969, The Estate of Peter Hujar, Not to be Reproduced Without Written Permission from the Estate"; stamp, "From the Estate #"; in pencil, "463-12"; in pencil, "EPH 1204-2"; signed in pencil, "Stephen Koch"; in pencil, "Sheep-Pennsylvania"; in pencil, "133"; in pencil, "HUJ 066 2"; in pencil, "72".
Provenance
Peter Hujar Archive, LLC., inventory number: EPH1204-2.
Summary
Full length portrait of two sheep, facing front, one standing to the right and slightly in front of the other. A Third sheep stands in the background to the right, facing front. Set outside in front of a barbed wire fence.
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