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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.194.15
People
Marion Palfi, Hungarian (Berlin, Germany 1917 - 1978 Los Angeles, California)
Title
Untitled (from "There Is No More Time," Wife of the Lynch Victim)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Silver See
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1949, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285364

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 50.8 x 40.8 cm (20 x 16 1/16 in.)
image: 34.4 x 26.8 cm (13 9/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Marion Palfi
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Marion Palfi
  • inscription: verso of the mount, upper center, graphite, in artist's hand: From "There Is No More Time"
    Wife of the Lynch Victim
    1949
  • inscription: verso of the mount, center, graphite, in artist's hand: Permanent Collection: Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Museum of Art of the Univeristy of Kansas,
    Lawrence, Kansas and others.
  • stamp: verso of the mount, lower center, red ink: COPYRIGHT
    MARION PALFI

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from L. A. Ctr for Photographic Studie, 1977, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1977 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Copyright
© Marion Palfi / Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
Object Number
P1982.194.15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

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