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Minor White
Birdlime and Surf1951, printed 1975

Not on view
Black and white photograph looking down onto a dark coastal rock shelf streaked with white sea foam, with breaking waves and storm clouds in the distance

Minor White, Birdlime and Surf, 1951, printed 1975, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Minor White
Title
Birdlime and Surf
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1951, printed 1975
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 3/16 × 10 7/8 in. (23.34 × 27.62 cm) Primary support: 10 7/8 × 13 3/4 in. (27.62 × 34.93 cm) Secondary support: 18 × 22 in. (45.72 × 55.88 cm) Mat: 18 × 22 in. (45.72 × 55.88 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.84.189.4
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.

Copyright
Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © Trustees of Princeton University