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Image Not Available for Crossing into America from Mexico, Laredo, Texas
Crossing into America from Mexico, Laredo, Texas
Image Not Available for Crossing into America from Mexico, Laredo, Texas

Crossing into America from Mexico, Laredo, Texas

Artist Peter Turnley (American, born 1955)
CultureAmerican
Date2006
MediumArchival pigment print
Dimensions20 x 24 inches
SignedIt is signed on recto in ink and signed and dated on verso in pencil.
Credit LineGift of Peter Veritas
Object number2020.36.10
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a color photograph that depicts an adult and child holding hands and walking across a landscape with a concrete structure behind them. It is an archival pigment print that measures 20 x 24 inches. It is signed on recto in ink and signed and dated on verso in pencil.

ProvenanceIn September 2020, Seth Feman, deputy director for art and interpretation and curator of photography, received a message from Matt Coote of Summit Art Advisory, LLC, about the possibility of receiving a donation of photographs. Coote shared a link to preview several options, which Feman reviewed with Director Erik Neil. Twenty-four works were selected, including these.