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Artists›Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman

1958–1981

WA-00001433

Photography

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ242308

Field Verification (8 fields)

3 cross-verified · 5 single-source

Death yearDuplicate Merge + Gallery· 85%✓
Primary mediumDuplicate Merge + Gallery· 85%✓
Birth yearDuplicate Merge + Gallery· 85%✓
BiographyGallery Generic + Gallery· 72%
LocationGallery Generic + Gallery· 72%
Profile imageGallery· 60%
WebsiteGallery· 60%
NationalityGallery· 60%

Source Registry (3)

Marian-Goodmanhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/francesca-woodman
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/francesca-woodman
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Francesca Woodman yet.

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Movement

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Medium

Photography

Related Artists

6 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate National Gallery of Australia Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

Canonical record

Artworks (52)

WattsOS

Untitled (FW crouching behind umbrella)

1980 · Photograph, gelatine silver print on paper

image: 171 x 165 mm

Tate

Untitled, from the "Caryatid" series

1980 · Diazotype

202 × 92.1 cm (79 1/2 × 36 1/4 in.); 228.6 × 116.9 × 5.1 cm (90 × 46 × 2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Peterborough, New Hampshire

1980 · Gelatin silver print

1 5/8 × 2 1/2" (4.1 × 6.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

1980 · Gelatin silver print

16.2 x 15.8 cm (6 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

WattsOS

Blueprint for a Temple (I)

1980 · Diazo collage

Overall: 440 × 282.4 cm (173 1/4 × 111 3/16 in.), irregular

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

WattsOS

Untitled

1980 · Diazotype

Image: 187 x 93.4 cm (73 5/8 x 36 3/4 in.) Frame: 223.5 x 130.8 cm (88 x 51 1/2 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 14.2 × 14.2 cm (5 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.); sheet: 18 × 24 cm (7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.); 41.6 × 41.6 × 3.9 cm (16 3/8 × 16 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 14.8 × 14.8 cm (5 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.); sheet: 25.3 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1979 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 17.2 × 17.2 cm (6 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.); paper: 25 × 20.1 cm (9 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1978 · Gelatin silver print

94.7 × 97.2 cm (37 1/4 × 38 1/4 in.); 102.3 × 102.3 cm (40 1/4 × 40 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1978 · Gelatin silver print

99.7 × 94 cm (39 1/4 × 37 in.); 108.6 × 104.8 cm (42 3/4 × 41 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1978 · Gelatin silver print

100.4 × 111.8 cm (39 1/2 × 44 in.); 108.6 × 120.1 cm (42 3/4 × 47 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

WattsOS

Rome

1978 · Gelatin silver print

14.8 x 15.1 cm (5 13/16 x 5 15/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Italy, May 1977 - August 1978

1977 · Photograph, gelatine silver print on paper

image: 143 x 158 mm

Tate

WattsOS

From Angel Series, Roma, September 1977

1977 · Photograph, gelatine silver print on paper

image: 93 x 93 mm

Tate

WattsOS

Eel Series, Roma, May 1977 - August 1978

1977 · Photograph, gelatine silver print on paper

image: 219 x 218 mm

Tate

I Could No Longer Play I Could Not Play by Instinct

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 14.5 × 14.3 cm (5 11/16 × 5 5/8 in.); sheet: 25.4 × 20.4 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

And I Had Forgotten How to Read Music

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11 × 11 cm (4 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.); sheet: 16.9 × 16.9 cm (6 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

I Stopped Playing the Piano

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11 × 11 cm (4 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.); sheet: 25.4 × 20.4 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait on That Same Day

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 13.2 × 13.2 cm (5 3/16 × 5 3/16 in.); mount: 35.6 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Then at One Point I Did Not Need to Translate the Notes; They Went Directly to My Hands

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 15.6 × 15.6 cm (6 1/8 × 6 1/8 in.); sheet: 25.4 × 20.4 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.3 × 11.3 cm (4 7/16 × 4 7/16 in.); sheet: 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On Being an Angel

1977 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 13.4 × 13.5 cm (5 1/4 × 5 5/16 in.); mount: 35.6 × 27.7 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

WattsOS

Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

1976 · Photograph, gelatine silver print on paper

image: 143 x 144 mm

Tate

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Artwork sources (5)

52 published of 52 catalogued · 29 with image

Art Institute Chicago
26 published26 img
Tate
18 published1 img
The Met
5 published
MoMA
2 published2 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
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Untitled (FW crouching behind umbrella)
1980 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Eel Series, Roma, May 1977 - August 1978
1977 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

10 assets

Art Institute of Chicago

Artsy

Wikipedia

Art Institute of Chicago

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Relationships

Collections8

Christie's Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate National Gallery of Australia Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Gagosian

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

National Gallery of Australia

In collection

Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

National Gallery of Australia

In collection

Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

Background

Education

Rhode Island School of Design

Visual Arts

Boulder High School

Visual Arts

Phillips Academy

Visual Arts

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition Francesca Woodman

2026

Solo Exhibition Francesca Woodman

2024

Exhibition Francesca Woodman at Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie

Exhibition Francesca Woodman at National Gallery of Australia