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1999.3

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Twin Study with Cord

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Artist

Anne Harris (Cleveland, Ohio, 1961 - )

Title

Twin Study with Cord

Creation Date

1998

Century

20th century

Dimensions

24 3/4 in. x 22 1/2 in. (62.87 cm x 57.15 cm)

Object Type

drawing

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

pastel, graphite, and charcoal on toned paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

1999.3

Like Mary Cassatt a century earlier, Anne Harris, a Chicago-based artist, has demonstrated an interest throughout her career in portraying women and children at different points in their lives. In this composition, Harris depicts a newborn coming into the world. Though she often works directly from life, she also creates from memory, invents elements, and in this instance takes advantage of a series of snapshot photographs that this child’s father created during the delivery. For Harris, pastels and charcoal are ideal for depicting an infant’s body and the experience of a newborn’s arrival: “I like that pastel can exist very physically and densely on the paper but can also be very delicate and deal with the subtlety of nuances.”