The Pipe Smoker
1932, printed 1981
Artist, American, 1898 - 1984
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 31.9 × 22.1 cm (12 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
sheet: 35.5 × 27.2 cm (14 × 10 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.117.8
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(South Light, Atlanta); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, purchase, 1981; acquired by NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 4, 2000 – July 16, 2000
2002
Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 10 – February 25, 2002
Bibliography
1980
Polk, P.H. P.H. Polk: Photographs. Atlanta, 1980: 17.
2000
Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black. New York, 2000: 72.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right below image in black ink: P. H. Polk
Wikidata ID
Q64158586