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A black and white photograph of a glove on a dark background.

The black and white photograph shows a glove lying in the center, on a background of dark, weathered, wood. The fingers of the glove are folded over to the left, the thumb is extended up on the left. There is a knit cuff on the bottom. The glove is lined and spotted with dirt.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1056
People
Aaron Siskind, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1991 Providence, R.I., USA)
Title
Gloucester 1H
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1944
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Gloucester
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/157373

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34.1 x 28 cm (13 7/16 x 11 in.)
sheet: 35.4 x 27.7 cm (13 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of the artist
Copyright
© Estate of Aaron Siskind
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.1056
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from The Carpenter Center Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/06/2005 - 10/30/2005
  • HAA178m Cold War Photography (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/13/2016 - 10/05/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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