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Gwen Akin
Verso of Sliced Face #11985

Not on view
Sepia-toned photograph of a cross-sectioned skull submerged in a glass tank filled with clear liquid, with a hand-applied black ink border
Artist or Maker
Gwen Akin
United States, born 1950
Artist or Maker
Allan Ludwig
United States, born 1937
Title
Verso of Sliced Face #1
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1985
Medium
Platinum-palladium print
Dimensions
Image (Irregular): 25 × 21 5/8 in. (63.5 × 54.93 cm) Primary support: 33 3/4 × 30 1/4 in. (85.73 × 76.84 cm) Secondary support: 35 1/2 × 32 in. (90.17 × 81.28 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Graham and Susan Nash in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.90.75.2
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt, and Jim Shedden. Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2016.