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Preview image of work. gelatin silver print on paper,  Grandma Ruby and J.C. in Her Kitchen 2006 37589

2019.3

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Grandma Ruby and J.C. in Her Kitchen 2006

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Artist

LaToya Ruby Frazier (Braddock, PA, 1982 - )

Title

Grandma Ruby and J.C. in Her Kitchen 2006

Creation Date

2006

Century

early 21st century

Dimensions

15 3/8 x 19 1/4 in. (39.05 x 48.9 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

2019.3

In a series of photographs created between 2001 and 2014, LaToya Ruby Frazier documented the lives of three generations of women in her family: her grandmother, her mother, and herself. Her photographs were taken inside her grandmother’s home and across the neighborhoods and industrial sites around her childhood home in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Located on the Monongahela River outside Pittsburgh, Braddock is the site of Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill, the Edgar Thomson Works, which began operating in 1875 and was the last functioning mill of its kind in the region. This multi-generational portrait, and those represented in the series, reflect on the family’s experiences in Braddock and the physical, mental, and environmental effects the steel industry had on each of the women’s lives. In 2014 she published this series in the book The Notion of Family, making widely accessible her family’s history documented through art.