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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1995.48
People
Frederick Sommer, American (Angri, Italy 1905 - 1999 Prescott, Arizona)
Title
Jack Rabbit
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1939
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212490

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.2 x 24 cm (7 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 30.4 x 35.8 cm (11 15/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, center in graphite: Frederick Sommer
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: Frederick Sommer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David P. Becker, Portland, Maine, purchased from LIGHT gallery, 1976, gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David P. Becker
Copyright
© Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
P1995.48
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • John Weiss, Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer, exh. cat., Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE, 1980), plate 15

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA Lit & Arts B24, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 11/09/2008
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010

Verification Level

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