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19 x 33-15/16 in. (image) 25 x 37-7/8 in. (sheet)
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Inscribed in pencil, below image, lower left: 12/25 Signed in pencil, below image, lower right: Ruth Bernhard Inscribed and signed in pencil, verso, center: In the Box - horizontal 1962 / Ruth Bernhard Stamp, verso, lower center: Special Limited Edition / of 25 Prints / In the Box, Horizontal / by Ruth Bernhard / Photographed: 1962: Inscribed: Printed 1992/ Edition Number 12
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Gift from the Estate of Ruth Bernhard
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Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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The Ruth Bernhard Trust (Mary Ann Helmholtz and Jane Totten, Co-Trustees), San Francisco, CA; donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2007
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In the Box – Horizontal is the classic among Bernhard’s classically composed and exquisitely crafted paeans to the female nude. The photographer carefully posed her model like a sculpted sleeping Greek nymph in a cardboard packing box, which serves to frame, but not confine the figure.
"I met Ruth because I saw her photographs in a magazine of nudes. The bodies were beautifully ethereal. My husband had encouraged me to model, but I was uncomfortable. I thought that if I posed for Ruth it would be different." — Joyce Pieper, model for In the Box – Horizontal
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