Cakes in Window

1937-1938

Nathan Lerner

Associated Names
Nathan Lerner

Artist, American, 1913 - 1997

The image shows an assortment of breads and pastries arranged in a display case. The largest items are loaves of bread stacked along the right and upper sections. The color palette is monochrome, in black and white, showing various textures and patterns within the bread and pastries through shades of gray. The display case consists of rectangular and circular slices of pastry in the middle, with denser looking loaves on the right and a row of loaf slices at the top. The bread slices feature swirled and dotted patterns.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.2 × 21.9 cm (5 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.5 × 35.6 cm (10 7/16 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.772

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: Cakes in Window [underlined] / Nathan Lerner/1938; by unknown hand, upper left in blue pencil: 39; upper right circled in graphite: 14

Wikidata ID

Q64158375

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