Miscegenated Family Album

Date

1980/94

Medium

Sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed 1) Sisters I (L: Nefertiti, R: Devonia) 2) Sisters II (L: Nefertiti's daughter Merytaten, R: Devonia's daughter Candace) 3) Sisters III (L: Nefertiti's daughter Maketaten, R: Devonia's daughter Kimberley) 4) Sisters IV (L: Devonia's sister Lorraine, R: Nefertiti's sister Mutnedjmet) 5) Ceremonial Occasions I (L: Devonia as Matron of Honor, R: Nefertiti performing a lustration) 6) Ceremonial Occasions II (L: Devonia attending a wedding, R: Nefertiti performing an Aten ritual) 7) A Mother's Kiss (T: Candace and Devonia, B: Nefertiti and daughter) 8) Motherhood (L: Nefertiti, R: Devonia reading to Candace and Edward, Jr.) 9) Young Princesses (L: Nefertiti's daughter Ankhesenpaaten, R: Devonia's daughter Candace) 10) Wordly Princesses (L: Nefertiti's daughter Merytaten, R: Devonia's daughter Kimberley) 11) Crowned Heads (L: Nefertiti's husband Akhenaten, R: Devonia's husband Edward) 12) Young Queens (L: Nefertiti, aged 24, R: Devonia, aged 24) 13) Progress of Queens (L: Devonia, aged 35. R: Nefertiti, aged 36) 14) Cross-Generational (L: Nefertiti, the last image, R: Devonia's daughter Kimberley) 15) Hero Worship (L: Devonia at 14 and Lorraine at 3, R: Devonia at 24 and Lorraine at 13) 16) Sibling Rivalry (L: Nefertiti, R: Nefertiti's sister Mutnedjmet)

Dimensions

Each: 67.3 × 95.3 cm (26 1/2 × 37 9/16 in.); 67.4 × 95.3 cm (26 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.); Each frame: 69.3 × 97 × 3.9 cm (27 1/4 × 38 3/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Department

Contemporary Art

Credit line

Through prior bequest of Marguerita S. Ritman