Morning Light

1978

Nathan Lerner

Associated Names
Nathan Lerner

Artist, American, 1913 - 1997

This is a photograph of an unmade bed beside a window with metal bars. The scene captures an indoor setting where an unmade bed covered in heavy blankets with varying textures is in the foreground. Light seeps in through a large window, framed by decorative metal bars, casting soft shadows across the bed. Outside the window, silhouettes of barren trees and building structures are visible.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kiyoko Lerner

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.7 × 26.2 cm (6 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.9 × 35.6 cm (9 7/16 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.115.73

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nathan Lerner; Estate of Nathan Lerner, Chicago, 1997; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, center graphite: "Morning Light" / Mexico City/1978 / Nathan Lerner; by unknown hand, lower center: 1978; stamped, lower center in black: © Photo By Nathan Lerner / All Rights Reserved; lower left, circled in graphite: 55; lower center edge in graphite: 201#1; lower right: INV2226

Wikidata ID

Q64158461

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