Reproduction Proof of "Self Portrait as Fountain"
1966
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print with ink
Dimensions
image: 19.2 x 24 cm (7 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen
Accession Number
2011.93.36
About the Artist
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman, born on December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, grew up in a family frequently uprooted by his father's career as a General Electric engineer. After studying mathematics, physics, and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BS in 1964, Nauman pursued an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1966. There, he studied under William T. Wiley and Robert Arne...