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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.89
People
Roy DeCarava, American (New York, New York 1919 - 2009 New York, New York)
Title
Graduation
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1949, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284995

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.6 x 33 cm (8 7/8 x 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: recto, b.r. below image in graphite: © 1982 Roy DeCarava
  • inscription: recto, b.r. below image, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: © 1982 ROY DeCARAVA
  • inscription: recto, b.l., black ink: GRADUATION 1952

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Roy DeCarava, sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Copyright
© DeCarava Estate
Object Number
P1982.89
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Exhibition History

  • Recent Acquisitions: Photographs, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/16/1983 - 10/23/1983
  • 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
  • HAA178m Cold War Photography (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
  • Art of the Black World, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025

Verification Level

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