{"type":"artobject","objectid":136878,"objectnumber":"2023-211","sortnumber":"2023  211","displaytitle":"Edith, Chincoteague, Virginia","department":"Photography","classification":"Photographs","datebegin":1967,"dateend":1967,"datecomputed":1967,"daterange":"A.D. 1945-present","displaydate":"1967","medium":"Gelatin silver print","dimensions":"image: 16.2 × 16.2 cm (6 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)\r\nsheet: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of Alexander D. Stuart, Class of 1972, and Robin Stuart in memory of Peter C. Bunnell\r\n","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":"Signed, titled, and dated on verso","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"© Emmet Gowin","restrictions":"Restricted Download - Under Copyright","nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":"","campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2023-01-01","newaccession":1,"titles":[{"title":"Edith, Chincoteague, Virginia","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":4919,"displayname":"Emmet Gowin","displaydate":"born 1941, Danville, VA; active Princeton, NJ","datebegin":1941,"dateend":2100,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Emmet Gowin, born 1941, Danville, VA; active Princeton, NJ","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>\nPurchased by Alexander D. Stuart, July 1, 1986; gifted by Alexander D. Stuart, Class of 1972, and Robin Stuart to Princeton University Art Museum, October 2023.\n</p>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tThis group of photographs showcases Gowin’s ability to capture familial intimacy and his attentiveness to close relationships. Although his wife, Edith, is his most photographed subject, Gowin also frequently took pictures of her family in the Danville, Virginia, area, where Emmet and Edith were born, met, and married. Reflecting on his extended family, Gowin once said, “I admired their simplicity and generosity and thought of the pictures I made as agreements. I wanted to pay attention to the body and personality that had agreed out of love to reveal itself.” Gowin portrays Edith standing in shadows beneath a tree, pregnant and linking arms with her sisters, and from behind, her face hidden. The Gowins’ niece Nancy, another favorite subject, stands in a moment of utter contentment, holding an egg in each hand, arms entwined.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tGowin joined the faculty of Princeton University’s Visual Arts Program in 1973 at the invitation of Peter C.\n\t\n\tBunnell, the newly appointed inaugural McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art. 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Gelatin silver print; 16.2 × 16.2 cm (image), 25.3 × 20.2 cm (sheet). Gift of Alexander D. Stuart, Class of 1972, and Robin Stuart in memory of Peter C. Bunnell\r\n (2023-211)","captionhtml":"Emmet Gowin (born 1941, Danville, VA; active Princeton, NJ), <i>Edith, Chincoteague, Virginia</i>, 1967. Gelatin silver print; 16.2 × 16.2 cm (image), 25.3 × 20.2 cm (sheet). Gift of Alexander D. Stuart, Class of 1972, and Robin Stuart in memory of Peter C. Bunnell\r\n (2023-211)","published_date":"2026-04-03 02:00:56.102486","campusart":[{"campuscollections":"false","campusart":0,"neighborhood":null,"lat":null,"lon":null}],"extended_content":false}