id:			376243
accession number:	2020.72
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.72
updated:		2021-03-27 12:17:39.470000

Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), 1982, printed 1999. Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.9 x 20.8 cm (9 x 8 3/16 in.); framed: 48.1 x 44.5 cm (18 15/16 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2020.72

title:				Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1982, printed 1999
creation date earliest:		1982
creation date latest:		1982
current location:		
creditline:			The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
copyright:			

---

culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948)  - artist

---

measurements: Image: 22.9 x 20.8 cm (9 x 8 3/16 in.); Framed: 48.1 x 44.5 cm (18 15/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in black ink on recto: "Androgyny © 1983-5 Nancy Burson (signed) 14/15"
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

	Studio of the Artist
	date: 1999
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	(Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)
	date: 2000
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
	date: 2000-2020
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 2, 2020
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact: 
The current global ratio of men to women in 2020 is estimated at 1.02 males for each female.

digital description: 
Working with two MIT engineers, Nancy Burson developed the technique of computer morphing faces in the late 1980s. Instead of photographing individuals and then morphing their images, Burson chose to use examples from books and other pre-existing sources, exploring not individuality but instead the power and danger of stereotypes.  <em>Androgyny</em> questions how we identify a face as male or female. The component faces in the work include a variety of ages but are all Caucasian.

wall description: 

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Burson, Nancy, Richard Carling, and David Kramlich. Composites: Computer-Generated Portraits. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986.
	page number: 	
	url:		

	Burson, Nancy, Michael L. Sand, Lynn Gumpert, Terrie Sultan, and Christopher C. French. Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson. Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 2002.
	page number: 	
	url:		

---

IMAGES