Boy's Club Heavyweight, 9-year-old Robert Sampson, Barney Neighborhood House, Washington, D.C.
1948
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: 35 × 27.3 cm (13 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)
sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.5000
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, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2005.010.028
Wikidata ID
Q64144983