Exhibit G: Cowboy Boot, Assaulted (from the series Crime in the Home)
Artist
Betty Hahn
(American, born 1940)
Printer
James Holbrook
(American, born 1951)
Date1982
Mediumsilver-dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Betty Hahn, 2015
Object number2015.2.7
DescriptionBrown cowboy-style boot arranged with ruler at left and white arrow pointing to heavily chewed toe.eMuseum Notes
Betty Hahn’s series “Crime in the Home” includes photographs of household objects destroyed by Trotsky, her Borzoi, when he was a puppy. Arranged in the style of crime scene photographs, the series even includes a “police sketch” of the suspect and one of the suspect’s paws with a ruler.
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