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O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy,
1995

Duane Michals, born 1932, McKeesport, PA; active New York, NY

2002-140

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Title

O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

Dates

1995

Maker

Duane Michals

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 39.1 x 26.1 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 50.1 x 40.2 cm (19 3/4 x 15 13/16 in.) frame: 58.3 × 48.1 × 2.6 cm (22 15/16 × 18 15/16 × 1 in.)

Credit Line

The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, gift of the artist

Object Number

2002-140

Inscription

Inscribed in ink on sheet below center of image: From Drum Taps O Tan Faced Prairie-Boy/ O Tan Faced Prairie-Boy / Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift / Praises and presents came and nourishing food till at last / among the recruits, / you came taciturn with nothing to give – we looked on each other / When lo! More that all the gifts of the world you gave me. / Walt Whitman Signed in ink, recto lower right corner of sheet: Duane Michals 3/25 Gallery label affixed upper center of frame backing

Culture

American

Type

black-and-white photographs, photographs

Subject

portraits, youth, heads, men

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 144 (illus.), p. 148

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Citation

Duane Michals (born 1932, McKeesport, PA; active New York, NY), O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy, 1995. Gelatin silver print; 39.1 x 26.1 cm (image), 58.3 x 48.1 cm, 50.1 x 40.2 cm (sheet), 58.3 × 48.1 × 2.6 cm (frame). The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, gift of the artist (2002-140) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/41028

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