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6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565

Sculpture Garden Extended Hours

Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
Through September 5
Exhibitions & Events
America’s 250th

Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
Open Call

Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Pastor Ledbetter, Chicago

1953, printed later

Gordon Parks

Associated Names

Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The image shows a man's upper body. He has his arms raised and palms open, standing with his eyes closed. The man has short hair, and he is wearing a dark suit with a white dress shirt and a tie. He has a watch on his left wrist and a ring on his right hand. The background is plain with faint, illegible text. The setting appears to be indoors, with a softly blurred foreground.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection, 1998)
Dimensions

image/sheet: 72.7 × 103.5 cm (28 5/8 × 40 3/4 in.)
framed: 75.9 × 104.3 × 3.8 cm (29 7/8 × 41 1/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2016.117.180

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 10, 1997 – January 11, 1998

2024

Gordon Parks: Camera Portraits from the Corcoran Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 14, 2024–January 12, 2025

Bibliography

2024

Greenough, Sarah. "Exhibitions."Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 36, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q64154479

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