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Exhibit H: Cowboy Boot, Lighter, Assaulted (from the series Crime in the Home)
Exhibit H: Cowboy Boot, Lighter, Assaulted (from the series Crime in the Home)
Exhibit H: Cowboy Boot, Lighter, Assaulted (from the series Crime in the Home)

Exhibit H: Cowboy Boot, Lighter, Assaulted (from the series Crime in the Home)

Artist (American, born 1940)
Printer (American, born 1951)
Date1982
Mediumsilver-dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Betty Hahn, 2015
Object number2015.2.8
DescriptionBrown cowboy boot keychain with a BIC lighter inside and ruler at right.
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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