Walking John Hancock (Chicago)

© Laurie Simmons

Walking John Hancock (Chicago)

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Walking John Hancock (Chicago),

1992

Laurie Simmons, American, born 1949
x1992-221
Since the 1970s, Simmons has utilized dolls and their accessories as surrogates to critique archetypal gender roles that feminist discourse aims to deconstruct. In Simmons’s series, she attached doll legs to various items, such as the model of Chicago’s John Hancock Center seen here. The anthropomorphized building breaks into a sprint, suggesting not only Chicago’s fast-paced environment but also a feminist statement about the role of women in corporate America.

Information

Title
Walking John Hancock (Chicago)
Dates

1992

Maker
Laurie Simmons
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 22.9 × 15.3 cm (9 × 6 in.) sheet: 35.7 × 27.8 cm (14 1/16 × 10 15/16 in.) mat: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 × 14 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, anonymous gift
Object Number
x1992-221
Place Made

North America, United States

Inscription
Signed and dated in ink, lower right corner below image: Laurie Simmons 92
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamped, verso center: Laurie Simmons Walking John Hancock (Chicago), 1992 / Ektacolor print / 14" x 11" / Sold to benefit Photographers + Friends / United Against AIDS / Edition 68 [handwritten in ink]//200.
Culture
American
Type
photographs, chromogenic color prints, color photographs
Techniques
chromogenic processes
Subject
buildings, figurines, white (color), gray (color)

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