id: 442289 accession number: 2021.137 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.137 updated: 2022-03-11 10:00:28.758000 A Young Muslim Woman in Brooklyn, 1990. Chester Archer Higgins, Jr. (American, 1946-). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.9 x 17.8 cm (9 x 7 in.); paper: 25.1 x 20.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2021.137 title: A Young Muslim Woman in Brooklyn title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1990 creation date earliest: 1990 creation date latest: 1990 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Chester Archer Higgins, Jr. (American, 1946-) - artist American photographer, born 1946 --- measurements: Image: 22.9 x 17.8 cm (9 x 7 in.); Paper: 25.1 x 20.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Muslim Woman/Brooklyn” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “9169N22” translation: remark: inscription: Stamped in black ink on verso: (Egyptian Eye of Horus symbol)/CHESTER HIGGINS JR./COPYRIGHTED PHOTOGRAPH/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Chester Higgins (signed)” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “CHI-00014-SP” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Chester Higgins, Jr. (the artist) [1946-] date: 1968-2021 footnotes: citations: (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY) date: 2021 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: September 13, 2021- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The image, one of the artist’s best known and most often reproduced, is a portrait in which only the sitter’s eyes are visible. digital description: This woman wears a niqab, a veil worn in public by some Muslim women as a sign of religious piety. In his photojournalistic work, Chester Higgins Jr. chose to be an unseen observer. Here, in this more personal image, he enters directly into dialogue with the sitter, who boldly confronts the camera’s gaze. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Higgins, Chester. Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa. 1994. page number: p. 178 url: --- IMAGES