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Standing woman with bare breasts, long dark hair, arms folded across stomach, wearing short skirt.
Christine
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Christine

Artist Steve Meisel (American, born 1954)
Date1990
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsPaper: 15 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (40.32 x 33.34 cm)
Image: 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (31.12 x 26.04 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann
Object number1994.23.9
Collections
Visual DescriptionStanding woman with bare breasts, long dark hair, arms folded across stomach, wearing short skirt.
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Costa Rican Artist
1000-1522
Seated figure with legs folded beneath body; short arms raised to the sides; elongated head; long hair, hangs in four thick strands: two over the breasts and two down the upper back; small crown & head tie which hangs down at the back.
West Mexican Artist
undated
Standing female with ankle length skirt; arms curve inward with hands on stomach; very flat, wide torso and chest; large head and nose; twisted head tie; ornamentation at ears, neck and elbows; slightly raised breasts with small knobs; geometric design
West Mexican Artist
undated
Standing female figure; short arms raised out to the sides; round, protruding stomach; wide torso; small knobs for breasts at sides of chest; no neck; large nose; head tie with ornamentation.
West Mexican Artist
undated
Seated figure with right knee to right breast and left leg folded beneath body; hunched back with raised backbone; left hand on stomach; right hand holding large bowl to right shoulder; ornamentation at nose, ears, mouth, and left shoulder; large head with incised lines for hair; small pointed knobs for breasts at sides of chest.
West Mexican Artist
1-300
Sepia-toned photography of two childrens' bare stomachs and waists. They stand side by side with their hands clasped between them
Matt Mahurin
c.1980s
Standing figure with arms bent and elbows out; hands rest on stomach; small rounded knobs for breasts; no neck and very large head and nose; ornamentation at arm, ears and nose; vessel sits atop head; hollow; red and white painted decoration.
West Mexican Artist
undated
Black and white line print of a woman facing forward with short, wavy hair. She wears a collared top beneath a dark, densely hatched bodice. Her arms are folded across her chest, hands holding thin, pointed tools.
Virginia Myers
c. 1968
Standing female figure; legs set wide apart; long feet with high arches; wide, flat chest and torso; wide shoulders; very short arms up at sides; shallow knobs for breasts at sides of chest; no neck; large nose and ears; thick head crest.
West Mexican Artist
undated
A black-and-white composite photograph of a draped woman with a dark, barred grate over the face and a bare hand resting on her torso. Behind her, a house entirely covered in light fabric sits among trees.
Jerry Uelsmann
1991
Standing figure w/ legs apart and arms bent; arms and hands are pressed to sides; wide torso; two small knobs at the sides of the chest for breasts; large head with large nose; nose ring; tall sloping coiffure w/ incised hair; hollow; pierced ears.
West Mexican Artist
undated
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