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Charles Mattox, Sculptor, and His Wife, Dorothy, 1982
Charles Mattox, Sculptor, and His Wife, Dorothy, 1982
Charles Mattox, Sculptor, and His Wife, Dorothy, 1982

Charles Mattox, Sculptor, and His Wife, Dorothy, 1982

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1982
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 × 16 1/8 in. (30.5 × 41 cm)
Support: 14 × 16 7/8 in. (35.6 × 42.9 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Anne Noggle from the New Mexico Photographic Survey Project, Museum of Fine Arts, 1981-1984, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1985
Object number1985.114.11
DescriptionPortrait of man & woman standing looking at viewer. He stands to her proper right & has thinning gray hair, mustache & beard; he wears light color shirt w/epaulets on each shoulder. She has gray hair, & wears large white square rim glasses.
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Charles Mattox, (1910-1996), was a well-known artist in New Mexico, known for his leftist politics and interest in design and kinetics. He and his wife moved to New Mexico in 1936. They lived for a time on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, but also lived in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, where Mattox taught at the California School of Fine Art, (later named SFAI). The couple came to Albuquerque where he taught at the University of New Mexico until 1976.
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