Cocktail Party, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

1977

Joel Meyerowitz

Associated Names
Joel Meyerowitz

Artist, American, born 1938

This photograph depicts a group of people in an outdoor setting. To the left of center, a young woman is standing near a tree. She has long dark hair and wears a blue top, white pants, and a colorful jacket, and she carries a pink bag. To the left is another woman who faces the right but turns her head to look at us. She has shorter dark hair and wears a short-sleeved, white-and-green striped shirt and white pants, and she has her hands in her pockets. All the other people in the photograph face away from us or look in other directions, some of them with blurred faces, many engaged in conversation with each other. They all have light skin and wear various styles of vibrant clothing. The background shows trees, green foliage, a building on the left with large windows, and some small brown chairs on the right. The ground beneath the people is brown dirt with some small sticks and stones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.3 × 24.3 cm (7 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.153.15


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joel Meyerowitz, New York; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2015; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower center in black ink: Wellfleet, Cocktail Party 1977 Joel Meyerowitz 1980 / Fine; top left: 57 55 4/12 #354 5 [circled]; top right: 37RC


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