White Man Contemplating Pyramids

© 1989, Richard Misrach / courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

White Man Contemplating Pyramids

Currently not on view

White Man Contemplating Pyramids,

1989

Richard Misrach, American, born 1949
2011-2

Information

Title
White Man Contemplating Pyramids
Dates

1989

Maker
Richard Misrach
Medium
Inkjet print
Dimensions
image: 47 x 59.5 cm. (18 1/2 x 23 7/16 in.) sheet: 50.8 x 61 cm. (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Paul Runyon, by exchange, and the artist
Object Number
2011-2
Place Depicted

Africa, Egypt, Giza, Great Pyramid of Giza

Inscription
Signed, editioned, and dated in ink, lower right Titled in ink, lower left Ink below image: Study Print Man and Pyramids Giza © Richard Misrach 1989 / 2011 P.P.
Culture
American
Type
photographs, color photographs, inkjet prints
Techniques
inkjet printing
Subject
figures (representations), scale, men, pyramids (tombs or platforms), brown, light brown, light blue, white (color), gray (color)

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