P1999.52: The End of the Civic Repertory Theatre 1

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1999.52

People

Aaron Siskind, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1991 Providence, R.I., USA)

Title

The End of the Civic Repertory Theatre 1

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1938

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, New York

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/190678

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 34 x 25.8 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
sheet: 35.5 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, center, graphite (thought to be by Carl Chiarenza): End of Civic Rep Theater I, 1938
  plate 26 in P + T
• inscription: verso, lower left center, graphite: 12

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Carl Chiarenza and Heidi Katz, Rochester, New York, from the artist, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Carl Chiarenza and Heidi Katz

Copyright

© Estate of Aaron Siskind

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

P1999.52

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 220, ill.

Exhibition History

• Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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