Victorian Child Thinking
Artist
Olivia Parker
(American, born 1941)
Date1985
Mediumdye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid)
DimensionsImage: 20 1/2 × 24 in. (52.1 × 61 cm)
Support: 22 × 29 7/8 in. (55.9 × 75.9 cm)
Support: 21 3/4 × 28 1/2 in. (55.2 × 72.4 cm)
Support: 22 × 29 7/8 in. (55.9 × 75.9 cm)
Support: 21 3/4 × 28 1/2 in. (55.2 × 72.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineJane Reese Williams Collection, Gift of Cindy Ewing, 2012
Object number2012.16.1
DescriptionStill life composition with: box of IdleHours brand crayons, purple flower blossom, scrap of paper with handwriting in black ink, three single butterfly wings, a metal container, and a 19th century photographic image of a child and a girl or young woman.eMuseum Notes
In this still life, the artist uses nineteenth-century photographic portraits as a starting point for the imagination. The picture’s title suggests that the array of objects – crayons, a scrap of paper, some butterfly wings – are part of the thoughts or memories of the children, photographed so long ago but appearing right in front of our eyes.
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