Dyke Deck
Catherine Opie, American, born 1961
about 1997
Playing cards with screenprint photographs with a clear case
Overall: 3 9/16 × 2 9/16 × 9/16 in. (9 × 6.5 × 1.5 cm)
Case: 3 3/4 × 2 3/4 × 11/16 in. (9.6 × 7 × 1.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk
2010.88.24
Publisher
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Mixed Media
Research Area
Mixed Media
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in ink, left-edge side of case, center: Playing Cards; printed, in ink, bottom-edge side of case, center: Cathy Opie / MOCtA; printed, in ink, right-edge side of case, center: Dyke Deck
Course History
WGST 65, Queer Visual Culture, Gabriele Dietze, Winter 2014
WGST 18, Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2015
WGST 65.6, Radical Sexuality: Of Color, Wildness and Fabulosity, Eng-Beng Lim, Winter 2015
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II and III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
"Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 22-December 6, 2015.
A Space for Dialogue 82, Rejecting the Diminutive: Small-Scale Art, the Viewer, and the Art World, Winnie Yoe, Class of 2014, Homma Family Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 13, 2014.
Femme is Fierce: Femme Queer Gender Performance in Photography, Class of 1967 gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1-December 17, 2022.
Publication History
Winnie Yoe, A Space for Dialogue 82, Rejecting the Diminutive: Small-Scale Art, the Viewer, and the Art World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 4.
Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art, with contributions by Katherine Hart, Michael R. Taylor, John O'Reilly and James Tellin, Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, p. 101, no. 60.
Provenance
Purchased to benefit for the Audre Lorde Lesbian Health Care Clinic, Los Angeles from The Store, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; sold to John T. Kirk and Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, March 27, 1997; given to present collection, 2010.
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