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Wes Fesler Kicking a Football

1934

Harold Edgerton

Artist, American, 1903 - 1990

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., a Federal Agency, and The Polaroid Corporation)
Dimensions

image: 29.2 × 24.5 cm (11 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 35.4 × 28 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)
Accession

2015.19.4183

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sander Gallery, Washington, DC); purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower center in black ink: Harold Edgerton; by unknown hand, lower right, in graphite: 1979.75

Wikidata ID

Q64154722

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