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Karen, West Mesa
Karen, West Mesa
Karen, West Mesa

Karen, West Mesa

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1977 or 1978
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 × 15 in. (27 × 38.1 cm)
Support: 16 × 19 3/4 in. (40.6 × 50.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.4
DescriptionWoman at extreme left of landscape composition. She is dressed in fur with a tight knit cap on her head and her gaze to the right. Sky appears stormy.
Text Entries
Karen Truax was a friend and fellow artist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, who was known for her hand-colored photographs.
Noggle also photographed Jack Okon, brother of her friend and photographer Betty Hahn, at this location (see “Jack on West Mesa,” 2016.2.15).
Noggle included Truax’s work in the 1975 traveling exhibition and book “Women of Photography: An Historical Survey” that she organized with Margery Mann.
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