The Ladies' Field Club of York (suite of eight sepia photographs) : Miss Amelia West, Botany (1999)

Mark Dion & J. Morgan Puett

photograph, gelatin silver print, with hand painted text on paper mounted on board

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Photograph

Materials:

Photograph, Paint, Board

Dimensions:

50.8 x 40.6 (each) cm

Accession Number:

T12248

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, purchased with funds from Peter and Maria Kellner, 2005

Scheme:

Fine Art Acquisition Scheme (2008-)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York by Lisa Corrin for the Contemporary Art Society, with aid of funds from Peter and Maria Kellner, 2002; presented to Tate, 2005

Relationship:

Lisa Corrin Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Peter and Maria Kellner

Subject:

Conceptual Art

The Ladies' Field Club of York is an imaginary group of women amateur natural scientists from the 19th century who, in pursuit of their studies, made field trips in a specially designated railway carriage. Part installation, part photographic fiction, The Ladies' Field Club of York (1999) is the work of artists Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett and has been created for the National Railway Museum in York, UK. Central to the work are these eight photographic portraits of the seven members of the field club and their trusted porter. These portraits have been made using the exact styling conventions and techniques of late Victorian studio portraiture. The models employed for the portraits were contemporary art curators currently working in Britain at the time.

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