Street Closed

1975

Roy DeCarava

Artist, American, 1919 - 2009

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.02 × 23.5 cm (13 × 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 35.24 × 27.94 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)
    mount: 50.8 × 40.64 cm (20 × 16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.4145

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Roy DeCarava, Brooklyn, NY; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through the Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1976; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • The Nation’s Capital in Photographs, 1976: Robert Cumming and Roy DeCarava, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 14 – May 9, 1976

1977

  • Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, December 6, 1977 – February 13, 1978

2003

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

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left below image in graphite: DeCARAVA; on mount, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, lower right in graphite: 1976.37.1 / DECARAVA; bottom left, typed in black ink on white label: CO7587 #31 / Street [handwritten in black ink: Closed; on verso of mount, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1976.37.1

Wikidata ID

Q64170471

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