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Identification and Creation

Object Number
54.1995
People
Aaron Siskind, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1991 Providence, R.I., USA)
Title
Gloucester 16A
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1944
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/283961

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in black ink on verso top center: "up"; stamped in black ink on verso, upper left: "ART PHOTOGRAPHY"; in graphite on verso upper center: "G1.44 1944 Gloucester #460"' in graphite on verso center to center left: "4 1/2" Chapt IV Plate XIII"; in graphite on verso lower right (upside down): "8323 #4600A28121 7m"; in graphite on lower right: "19 3/4"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collector, Arlington, MA, purchased from Carl Chiarenza, Long Term Loan to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.
Carl Chiarenza, from the artist, sale to private collector.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Deborah Martin Kao
Copyright
© Estate of Aaron Siskind
Object Number
54.1995
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Aaron Siskind, "This Is My Best", Art Photography (June 1954), 16-19
  • Carl Chiarenza, Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (Boston, MA, 1982)
  • Deborah Martin Kao and Charles A. Meyer, Aaron Siskind: Toward a Personal Vision 1935-1955, exh. cat., Boston College Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 1994), 52

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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