Rena Hill Selfe

Melissa Springer

1993

  • Titles Rena Hill Selfe (Proper)
  • Artist Melissa Springer, American, born 1956
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 20 × 15 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.3 cm) image: 16 11/16 × 12 3/4 in. (42.4 × 32.4 cm) mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm) sight: 16 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (42.5 × 32.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Bequest of Rena Hill Selfe, AFI.35.1996
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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