Herringboned

1988

William Wegman American, born 1943

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Wegman’s artistic production in the 1970s primarily involved video, conceptual art, and, eventually, black-and-white sequential photography. In 1979 he was one of many artists invited by the Polaroid Corporation to experiment with a large-format camera at their studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 20 x 24 inch view camera produces high-resolution prints of exceptionally vivid color. Wegman, who was initially reluctant to use the equipment, became excited about the instantaneous results of the medium and found it comparable to video playback. Wegman began to include his dog (or “art partner,” as Wegman liked to call him) Man Ray in many photographs from the early 1970s until the dog’s death in 1982. Man Ray was eventually replaced by a female Weimaraner named Fay Ray, who appears in Herringboned.

Title Herringboned

Artwork Date 1988

Artist William Wegman

Life Dates born 1943

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Color instant print (polaroid)

Dimensions Image: 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Founders Junior Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1989.9

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1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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William Wegman, Herringboned, 1988, color instant print (Polaroid). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Founders Junior Council and a National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant, F1989.9.

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