Chuck Close
Chuck Close
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- Description
- Pigment print of Bob Weingarten's portrait of Chuck Close from his "Portraits without People" series. Central image is the painted interior of an Italian chapel. Elements include a black and white fingerprint painting of Philip Glass by Close, Vermeer's Girl in a Red Hat, a Wilem deKooning painting of a woman, Bounty paper towels, Sharpie pens, a mechanized wheel chair, and background of trees from an English garden. "RW" blindstamp, "AP" and signed by photographer along bottom edge.
- Object Name
- pigment print
- Pigment Print
- date made
- 2009
- represented
- Close, Chuck
- maker
- Weingarten, Robert I.
- place made
- United States: California, Malibu
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 44 in x 60 in; 111.76 cm x 152.4 cm
- ID Number
- 2008.0179.02
- catalog number
- 2008.0179.02
- accession number
- 2008.0179
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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