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Dossy: 1938

Dossy: 1938

1966
Neff, Edith

Object Details

TITLE:
Dossy: 1938
DATE:
1966
ARTIST:
Neff, Edith
MEDIUM:
Oil on canvas, diptych
DIMENSIONS:
44-1/2 x 55-1/2 in. (frame)
CREDIT LINE:
Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2017

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Description

Neff worked from photographs to create this diptych. She depicts her young sister Dossy with her father at left and with her mother at right. The two views of the typical street of Philadelphia rowhouses almost fit together as a continuous view, but Neff allows for a disjunction that preserves an awareness that she was working from two distinct pictures, two different moments in time.

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