August 10, 1955

1996

Linda Connor

Artist, American, born 1944

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.2 × 25 cm (7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 30 cm (9 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.82.3

  • Copyright

    Courtesy of the University of California Observatories. This image is from the Lick Observatory's Mount Hamilton Plate Archives. Copyright held by the Regents of the University of California.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Linda Connor; NGA purchase (through Haines Gallery, San Francisco), 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 28.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist lower right in graphite: Linda S. Connor; lower left: Contact print from the / original negative. Lick Observatory Archive, / University of California.; center inverted: King Polar Axis / Aug 10 1955 / Upper; bottom center: August 10, 1955; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: HG 3460

Wikidata ID

Q64157464

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