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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.114
People
Ken Light, American (The Bronx, New York born 1951)
Title
Race Wall, St. Louis, Missouri
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1971, printed 1993
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Missouri, St. Louis
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361740

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
image: 22.9 × 34.1 cm (9 × 13 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: Race Wall / St. Louis, Missouri, 1971 / (c) Ken Light / KL-a-1993

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ken Light, created, 1993, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© Ken Light 1971, 2015
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.114
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

Verification Level

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