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Identification and Creation

Object Number
40.2001
People
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), American (Zloczew, Austria (now Poland) 1899 - 1968 New York, New York)
Title
Untitled (two men dressed in Santa Claus costumes, New York City)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1954
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/172651

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.6 x 19.8 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center left to upper center, blue crayon: Relion - Christmas US Santa Claus
  • stamp: verso, upper center, black ink: STAMP
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: Weegee from European [circled in red crayon]
  • inscription: verso, upper right center, orange crayon: A
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [printer's marks]
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: used Life 12 - 27 - 54 p 80 [circled in blue crayon]
  • stamp: verso, center, red ink: USED IN LIFE DEC 27 1954 p. 80 [page notation in graphite] [entire mark circled in blue crayon]
  • stamp: verso, lower left, red ink: RETURN TO
    TIME, INC.
    27 1955
    FILE
  • stamp: verso, center, black ink: DEC 1954
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: SS
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: [gallery staff]: PF33186TL

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, Arlington, MA, purchased from Gil Einstein & Company?, 2000, on loan at the Harvard University Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Object Number
40.2001
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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