West
1987
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.78 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 in.) mat: 54.61 × 44.45 cm (21 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.) framed: 59.69 × 49.53 cm (23 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Artist and David Zwirner
Accession Number
2020.158.10
About the Artist
James Welling
James Welling, born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut, emerged as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary American photography through a multidisciplinary path that shaped his experimental ethos. He began his artistic training at Carnegie-Mellon University, studying drawing under Gandy Brodie, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, before exploring modern dance at the University of P...