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Collection Artwork
Artist
Bernd Becher (Siegen, Germany, 1931 – 2007, Rostock, Germany)
Artist
Hilla Becher (Potsdam, Germany, 1934 – 2015, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Title
Coal Mine, Westfalen, Hamm, Ruhr District [from Walls and Conduits]
Creation date
1976, printed 1991
Materials
duotone offset photolithograph
Dimensions
frame size: 25 x 19 7/8 x 7/8 in.
paper size: 24 7/8 x 19 3/4 in.
image size: 15 7/8 x 12 in.
Credit Line
The Jack Shear Collection of Photography at the Tang Teaching Museum
Place of Creation
photographed in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
Accession Number
2018.38.444.6
Edition
30/100
Portfolio
Walls and Conduits
Object Type
Photographs
Marks
Signed in each artist’s hand, paper verso, lower center: Hilla Becher / Bernd Becher
Inscribed, paper verso, lower left: VI
Inscribed, paper verso, lower right: 30/100

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