Maid of Cotton Award: Karen Stark, Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Nixon and Harvey Berin
April 28, 1954
Artist, American, 1912 - 1989
Arthur Ellis

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/sheet: 28.26 × 35.56 cm (11 1/8 × 14 in.)
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Accession Number
2015.19.5004
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Washington Post Library, Washington, DC; Arthur Ellis, Washington, DC; 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, top center, typed in black ink on tan paper: MAID OF COTTON / Left to right: Karen Stark, designer; Mrs. Richard M. / Nixon; Vice President Nixon; Harvey Berin, designer. Nixon / autographs Berin's program.; center left and center right stamped perpendicular in black ink: PHOTO BY ELLIS; center stamped perpendicular: APR 28 1954; center right stamped in red ink: WASHINGTON POST / LIBRARY / RECEIVED / APR 29 1954 / RETURN PROMPTLY; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2005.010.046
Wikidata ID
Q64144989