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Mary and Me
Mary and Me
Mary and Me

Mary and Me

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1979
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 × 19 1/8 in. (33 × 48.6 cm)
Support: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.8
DescriptionInterior with window with closed curtains and framed painting on back wall. Unmade bed at center of composition with older woman seated on right front corner, holding a hand mirror. Slightly younger woman is standing by bed at left, wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Another window and wall hanging at right.
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Noggle had a close relationship with her family. Her mother, Agnes, lived in Santa Fe with the artist’s sister Mary, Mary’s husband Chester, and their daughter Dale. This picture of Anne and Mary was made in Agnes’ room not long after her death. The two sisters are posed in a very personal space, surrounded by their mother’s belongings. It is a final family portrait, with the mirror in Mary’s hand both a momento and a reminder of the brevity of human life.
The subjects are the photographer Anne Noggle and her sister Mary Pease in the bedroom of their mother Agnes (1890-1979)at the Pease home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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