Crystal, Easter, New Orleans, Louisiana

Artist Alec Soth American, born 1969

Date2002

MediumChromogenic print

Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Frame: 24 x 27 1/2 in. (61 x 69.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of Allen G. Thomas Jr. in honor of Lawrence J. Wheeler

Object number2014.14.61

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New Orleans, 2004; collection of the artist, Minneapolis; [Yossi Milo Gallery, New York]; Allen G. Thomas Jr., Wilson, NC, ca. 2004; given to NCMA, 2014.Published ReferencesAlec Soth, Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (Göttingen: Steidl, 2004), illus. (color) 88.

Alex Soth’s America, Siri Engberg, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Minneapolis: Walter Art Center, 2010), illus. (color) 68.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Wanderlust: Photography by Alec Soth," December 23, 2012-June 30, 2013.

Blowing Rock, NC, Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, “Transformation,” March 20–August 21, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "From Alpha to Creation: Religion in the Deep South," February 17-August 18, 2024.
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