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The Old Nymph
The Old Nymph
The Old Nymph

The Old Nymph

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1985
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (36.8 × 49.5 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.26
DescriptionForest landscape with heavy vegetation throughout. Nude woman lying on her right side, slightly curled up.
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In addition to her career as a photographer, Noggle served as the museum’s first curator of photography, from 1970-75. The first show she presented, in 1971, was of work by California landscape photographer Wynn Bullock, which included his famous 1951 image “Child in Forest,” a picture of his child lying nude in a forest landscape. In her homage to that image, Noggle poses in the forest in the Pacific Northwest, communing with nature not as an innocent but with the wisdom and experience of a mature woman.
This photograph was taken in the Pacific Northwest when Noggle was working on a portrait series in Seattle, Washington, in 1985.
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