Jesse Burke

Woodchuck

Maker

Jesse Burke (American, b. 1972), (RISD MFA 2005, Photography)

Title

Woodchuck
from the series "Intertidal"

Year

2005

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image/Sheet: 76 x 96.4 cm (29 15/16 x 37 15/16 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2012.69.2

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

Label copy

Having returned to his home in New England after spending his early adulthood away, Jesse Burke began to explore the relationship of this landscape to ideas of masculinity by staging within his pictures his friends, family, and himself in this image. Here a male archetypes, the cocky drinker, is portrayed.

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Tombstone

Jesse Burke (American, b. 1972)
Woodchuck; from the series "Intertidal", 2005
Digital color chromogenic print
Image/Sheet: 76 x 96.4 cm (29 15/16 x 37 15/16 inches)
Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD 2012.69.2

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