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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1994.7
People
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese (Tokyo, Japan born 1948)
Title
Metropolitan Orpheum, Los Angeles
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1993
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, California, Los Angeles
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/95201

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 42.4 × 54.1 cm (16 11/16 × 21 5/16 in.)
sheet: 48.9 × 60.2 cm (19 1/4 × 23 11/16 in.)
mount: 50.8 × 65.4 cm (20 × 25 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1993
  • inscription: title, signature, date, and "1/25 247" in graphite on mat; embossed on sheet under image, lower center "Metropolitian Orpheum"; embossed on sheet under image, lower right "1/25 247"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, from the artist, sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994. Sold through funds donated by (see credit)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, through the Sonnabend Gallery, New York.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto in honor of John Rosenfield
Copyright
© Courtesy of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Marian Goodman Gallery
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
P1994.7
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sugimoto, Mitsumuro Printing Co., Ltd. (Japan, 1988), unpaginated
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 315
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Exhibition History

  • Chasing Shadows, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/1995 - 04/02/1995
  • Tradition and Synthesis: 19th- and 20th-Century Works from East Asia, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/22/2001 - 06/09/2002
  • HAA178m Cold War Photography (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

Verification Level

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