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Florence Pierce
Florence Pierce
Florence Pierce

Florence Pierce

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1986-1987
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
Support: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.21
DescriptionA frontal, head-and-shoulders view of a middle-aged woman at center of composition. She has nearly chin-length light hair and is wearing a dark v-necked top. Her expression is neutral and her face is lined with age.
Text Entries
The date of this photograph is an estimate by the curator (Kate Ware).
This photograph was taken in Abluquerque, where Noggle and Pierce both lived.

In this intense portrait, Noggle captures not only the spirit of artist Florence Miller Pierce, known for her work with abstraction and the medium of resin, but also expresses her own agenda. Noggle was fascinated by the map of experience on human faces and wanted to show the beauty and vibrancy of older adults who are sometimes overlooked or considered irrelevant in Western culture.


The subject is Florence Miller Pierce (1918-2007), an American artist known for her innovative work in resin. Pierce lived in Albuquerque for much of her adult life and would have met Noggle through the artist community there.
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