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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1095
People
Aaron Siskind, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1991 Providence, R.I., USA)
Title
Chicago
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1948
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158228

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 27.3 x 41.5 cm (10 3/4 x 16 5/16 in.)
sheet: 28.7 x 42.6 cm (11 5/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): verso of mount, above center, graphite, unknown hand: TOP
    SISKIND
    CHICAGO 1948
    P1971.247

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
2.2002.1095
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, ed., Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement, exh. cat., Karl Kerber Verlag (2018), p. 242, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, 11/09/2018 - 03/10/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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