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
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creation date:			1990
creation date earliest:		1990
creation date latest:		1990
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Chester Archer Higgins, Jr. (American, 1946-)  - artist
American photographer, born 1946
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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.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Muslim Woman/Brooklyn”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “9169N22”
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: (Egyptian Eye of Horus 
symbol)/CHESTER HIGGINS JR./COPYRIGHTED 
PHOTOGRAPH/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Chester Higgins (signed)”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “CHI-00014-SP”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Chester Higgins, Jr. (the artist) [1946-]
	date: 1968-2021
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	(Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY)
	date: 2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 13, 2021-
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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.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Higgins, Chester. Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa. 1994.
	page number: 	p. 178
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