Object Details
- Artist
- Virginia Beahan, born Philadelphia, PA 1946
- Exhibition Label
- When her eighty-nine-year-old mother was stricken with dementia and no longer able to care for herself, Virginia Beahan and her husband moved her into their home. A landscape photographer accustomed to traveling extensively, Beahan at first found her prospects constrained by these circumstances, but she quickly discovered a new subject for her lens. Beahan documented the last years of her mother’s life with compassion as well as a clear-eyed accounting of the difficulties that came with the reversal of their roles.
- Close to Home: Photographers and their Families, 2011
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Haluk and Elisa Soykan
- Copyright
- © Virginia Beahan
- 2004
- Object number
- 2010.6.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- 18 3/8 x 23 1/4 in. (46.6 x 59.2 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group\female
- Ceremony\holiday\Thanksgiving
- Object\furniture\couch
- Architecture Interior\domestic\living room
- Record ID
- saam_2010.6.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk75e1ffae5-2da1-441f-a6f2-d993b85ac115
