Family Portrait in Bedroom
Artist:
Judy Gelles
(American, 1944 - 2020)
Date: 1977
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/4 × 23 1/4 in. (48.9 × 59.1 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of The Gelles Family & Pentimenti Gallery
Object number: 2022.10.4
Portfolio: Diary of a Desperate Housewife: 1977-1982
Copyright: © The Gelles Family
Inscribed: Family Portrait in Bedroom, 1977 - Oct 5, 1977 We were up all night again. David had an ear infection, and Jason kept waking up complaining that his foot hurt. It's been 3 1/2 years now since we've had a full nights sleep without interruption.
Provenance: the Gelles family; (Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA) by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2022.
Published References
Judy Gelles, "A Family Portrait: A Wife/Mother/Photographer's Revenge," Ms. Magazine, November/December 1990, 77-81. [Jason and David Saluting, 1982]
Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein, eds., The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art. Bradford, Canada: Demeter Press, 2011, 110. [Family Portrait in Bedroom, 1977]
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