Boy in Print Shirt

1978

Roy DeCarava

Artist, American, 1919 - 2009

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through the Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 13 – December 2, 1979, organized by the Bell System. Travelled until April 1982.

2002

  • Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 10 – February 25, 2002

2003

  • Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 1 – April 7, 2003

2025

  • The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025

Bibliography

1979

  • Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 76, no. 96.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right below image in gray ink: DECARAVA '78; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: REPRO / AT+T; bottom center: 78611 #5; bottom right: 98B; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1982.3.21

Wikidata ID

Q64170102


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