School children walking home through the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, Poland
1948
Artist, American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 26.3 × 39.3 cm (10 3/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
sheet: 40.32 × 50.48 cm (15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2016.117.280
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David Seymour/Magnum Photos Inc., New York; Eileen Shneiderman, sister of the artist, 1956; Ben Shneiderman, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2006
Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 18 – June 4, 2006; Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, September 11 – December 10, 2006; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, January 20 – April 22, 2007
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, center in black ink: Photo: David Seymour / Warsaw, Poland 1948; lower right in graphite: 17; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 2003.44.04
Wikidata ID
Q64146107