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Clarence John Laughlin
The Masks Grow to Us1947

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a woman draped in a dark veil, her face partly overlaid with a fragment of a painted mask using double exposure or photomontage

Clarence John Laughlin, The Masks Grow to Us, 1947, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Clarence John Laughlin
Title
The Masks Grow to Us
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1947
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/8 × 10 5/16 in. (33.97 × 26.19 cm) Primary support: 13 3/8 × 10 5/16 in. (33.97 × 26.19 cm) Secondary support: 17 × 14 3/16 in. (43.18 × 36.04 cm) Mat: 22 × 18 in. (55.88 × 45.72 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.87.82.1
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Price, Lorna. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.
  • Grundberg, Andy; Gauss, Kathleen McCarthy. Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Copyright
© The Estae of Clarence John Laughlin / The Historic New Orleans Collection