About the Artwork
Supper in a Madhouse
1935
William Mortensen
1897-1965
American
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Mortensen pigment process
Image: 13 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (34.9 × 29.2 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 × 12 1/4 inches (37.5 × 31.1 cm) Mount: 17 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (45.1 × 34.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Edward Wurst
F79.39
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, on sheet, lower right: William Mortensen 1935
Inscribed, in image [etched in negative] upper left: Supper in a Madhouse Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, upper right: Mortensen Pigment Process Inscribed, in black ink; on verso of mount, upper right: William Mortensen | Laguna Beach | Calif.
Provenance
Edward Wurst (Detroit, Michigan, USA);1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barr, Nancy W. "The Legacy of Photographic Modernism in America: Edward Weston's 'Photographic Art' and Charles Sheeler's 'Wheels.'" Bulletin of the DIA 80, nos. 1/2 (2006): p. 48 (fig. 8).
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According to Nancy Barr on 3/13/06 - there isn't an existing copyright for this artist. See file.
William Mortensen, Supper in a Madhouse, 1935, Mortensen pigment process. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Wurst, F79.39.
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