A black-and-white portrait photograph of an older White man wearing a white cowboy hat, a white suit jacket with rhinestones on the collar, a satin shirt, and a bow tie.

Cotton Thompson, maintenance man, Fat Stock Show, Fort Worth, Texas, 2/2/80

Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Date

1980, printed 1985
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 41 1/4 x 33 in.
Mount: 43 3/4 x 34 3/4 in.
Inscriptions

Print recto:
signed l.r.: Avedon
Mount verso:
signed l.c.: Avedon
stamped: IN THE AMERICAN WEST \ A project commissioned by the \ Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. \ This photograph may not be reproduced without \ the written permission of Richard Avedon Inc. \ Copyright 1985 by Richard Avedon Inc. \ All rights reserved. \ This photograph was printed in 1985. \ Cotton Thompson, maintenance man \ Fat Stock Show, Fort Worth, Texas, 2/2/80 \ This photograph was printed for and first exhibited \ at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas \ September 14 - November 17, 1985.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1985.28.93
Copyright

© The Richard Avedon Foundation

Avedon in Texas: Selections from In the American West

February 25–July 2, 2017

This exhibition of Richard Avedon’s evocative portraits of the people of the American West, commissioned by the Carter, uses the subjects’ faces, clothes, and postures to convey not only their hard living but the full embrace of human existence.

Location: Off view

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