The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
2014
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.6 × 24.7 cm (7 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Randi and Bob Fisher Fund
Accession Number
2015.58.1
Art Historical Context
**The Brown Sisters, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (2014) by Nicholas Nixon is a gelatin silver print from the National Gallery of Art collection, measuring a intimate 19.6 × 24.7 cm. Nixon, a celebrated American photographer known for his, empathetic portraits, captures four women—likely the Brown sisters the seaside town of Wellfleet,. This image belongs to his renowned ongoing series, begun in 1975, where he documents the sisters annually in the same sequence, offering a rare visual chronicle of familial bonds enduring over decades. The gelatin silver print medium, a traditional black-and-white...
About the Artist
Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon, born on October 27, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan, initially pursued American literature at the University of Michigan, earning his B.A. in 1969. It was during this time that he discovered photography, later advancing his skills with an M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1975. Settling in Boston in the 1970s, Nixon married Bebe Brown, whose family became central to his most i...