South Boston
1978
Artist, American, born 1947
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company)
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.4281
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 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.
2012
The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 9 – October 14, 2012
Bibliography
1979
Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 185, no. 260.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Nicholas Nixon; top right underlined: 4; bottom left: South Boston 1978; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.3.53
Wikidata ID
Q64158534