Firefighter
July 1938
Artist, American, 1912 - 1989
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Estate of Frederica Ellis, wife of Arthur J. Ellis)
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Dimensions
image: 24.7 × 19.9 cm (9 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4998
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Frederica Ellis, wife of the artist, Washington, DC; Debra Weingarten Jacobs, niece of the artist, North Bethesda, MD, 2001; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2003
Front Page: The Photographs of Arthur Ellis, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 2 – August 14, 2003
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: "Firefighter" / by / Arthur Ellis; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2005.010.019
Wikidata ID
Q64144981