Untitled [Girl Lying on a Bed]
between 1972 and 1976
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Overall: 17.9 x 12.1 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.) mount: 42.7 x 35.7 cm (16 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Victoria Cassis in memory of her daughter Joan Cassis
Accession Number
2004.149.17
Art Historical Context
In the National Gallery of Art's collection, *Untitled [Girl Lying on Bed]* by Joan Cassis captures an intimate, everyday moment from the mid-1970s (ca. 1972–1976). This small gelatin silver print, measuring just 17.9 x 12.1 cm on a larger 42.7 x 35.7 cm mount, showcases the artist's eye for quiet domesticity. Gelatin silver prints, a staple of mid-20th-century photography, are prized for their fine grain, rich tonal gradations from deep blacks to creamy whites, and archival stability—techniques that lend this image a timeless, tactile quality. The photograph's subject—a girl reclining on a b...