Eggs Encircled

1948

Carlotta Corpron American, 1901 - 1988

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About the Artwork

Title Eggs Encircled

Artwork Date 1948

Artist Carlotta Corpron

Life Dates 1901 - 1988

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image (and sheet): 13 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (34.3 × 27.6 cm) Mount: 13 7/8 × 11 1/8 inches (35.2 × 28.3 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1984.3

Markings

Signed Signed, in pencil, on mat, below window, lower left: Carlotta M Corpron Signed, in pen and black ink, on fragment trimmed from original mount and now attached to the back of the mat, at right: CARLOTTA M. CORPRON

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, on mat, below window, lower left: Eggs Encircled Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on fragment trimmed from the original mount and now attached to the back of the mat, left: EGGS ENCIRCLED c. 1948 [8 superimposed on the 6] | 2 negatives - (1) Eggs in space | (2) Fluid Light design | 4 x 5 view camera Inscribed, in pencil: Vintage

Marks Label, on mat, verso: [label for Amon Carter exhibition 1980-81]

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Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery. 1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Carlotte Copron / Form and Light: 1942-1949. Exh. invitation, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery. New York, 1977.

Carlotta Corpron. Exh. cat., Amon Carter. Fort Worth, 1980, pp. 16, 53, 62, no. 53.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Carlotta Corpron, Eggs Encircled, 1948, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, F1984.3.