Francesca Woodman

framed, a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition label on the reverse, 1975-76

Gift of the photographer to the present owner, 1970s, when students together at the Rhode Island School of Design

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Francesca Woodman, November 2011 - February 2012

Corey Keller, ed., Francesca Woodman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011), p. 41 (this print)

This early, unspotted print is on medium-weight paper with a surface sheen. As is sometimes typical of Francesca Woodman lifetime prints, it has been printed slightly asymmetrically on the sheet. In the lower left and right margin corners, there are creases that do not intrude upon the print or affect it in any way. There are small, faint deposits of indeterminate nature in the lower and left margins. When examined in raking light, the following are visible: tiny, soft indentations in the upper corner; and a small crescent-shaped soft crease in the lower right corner. On the reverse of the print, there is light age-darkening and light red deposits of indeterminate nature at the lower edge.
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