id: 161516 accession number: 2000.161.8 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.161.8 updated: 2023-01-11 09:16:50.668000 1989. A Portfolio of 11 Images Honoring Artists Lost to AIDS: Untitled, 1980. Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954). Chromogenic print; image: 28 x 38.9 cm (11 x 15 5/16 in.); paper: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.); matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro 2000.161.8 title: Untitled title in original language: series: 1989. A Portfolio of 11 Images Honoring Artists Lost to AIDS series in original language: creation date: 1980 creation date earliest: 1980 creation date latest: 1980 current location: creditline: Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Chromogenic print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Portfolio find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) - artist --- measurements: Image: 28 x 38.9 cm (11 x 15 5/16 in.); Paper: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: written in ink on recto: "Cindy Sherman [signed] / 22/75 1980/2000" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present opening date: 2009-06-01T00:00:00 Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 1-September 13, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/01/2009 - 09/13/2009); "Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Sherman is well known for portraits of herself in which she challenges accepted conventions of self-portraiture. Combining performance and documentation, Sherman masquerades as a variety of identities, impersonating real-life scenes and Hollywood dramas. From a series commemorating artists who died of AIDS, this photograph portrays Sherman in an ambiguous landscape, unattached to her surroundings. In contrast to the gritty documentary Polaroids by Mark Morrisroe, to whom Sherman’s image pays homage, this colorful photograph represents an imaginative narrative in which truth and identity remain unfixed. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES