New York
1971
Artist, American, 1913 - 2009
Artwork overview
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Medium
dye imbibition print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 35.5 × 23.5 cm (14 × 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 43 × 29 cm (16 15/16 × 11 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4189
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Helen Levitt, New York; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Prakapas Gallery, New York), 1980; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1980
Helen Levitt, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 9 – March 23, 1980
1981
Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (travelled through May 1983, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)
2003
Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 12 – August 25, 2003
2011
Framed: Street Photography from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3 – April 17, 2011
Bibliography
1980
Livingston, Jane. Helen Levitt. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 9.
1981
Nygren, Edward J. Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery. Exh. cat. Washington D.C., 1981: 164-165, cat. 69.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: N. Y. 1971 / Helen Levitt; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1980.49
Wikidata ID
Q64154951