John Lewis and Colleagues, Prayer Demonstration at a Segregated Swimming Pool, Cairo, Illinois

1962, printed 1969

Danny Lyon

Artist, American, born 1942

Magnum Photos

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.13 × 31 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.5 × 35.3 cm (10 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.4466

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Danny Lyon, Clintondale, NY; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York), 1994; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Danny Lyon: Photo-Film, 1959–1990, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 5 – April 4, 1994

2006

  • Sight/Insight: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 26 – October 29, 2006

2010

  • No Man's Land: Photography Across Categories, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 11, 2010 – January 30, 2011

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, top right corner outside image in red pencil circled: 49; lower right in red ink circled: 59%; lower right in red pencil: pg41; bottom left below image in red pencil: [arrow to left edge]; bottom center in red ink, crossed out in blue ink: 8 3/8; bottom right below image in red pencil: [arrow to right edge of image]; bottom right in graphite circled: 78; on verso, top left on white label, typed in black ink: BLACKS / THE MOVEMENT; by unknown hand, top left perpendicular in green pencil: 49; top left in graphite underlined twice: UTR; top center in black ink underlined: BOOK PRINT; top right perpendicular in green pencil circled: 49; upper left in graphite: JOHN LEWIS (LEFT) / SUMMER 1962 / CAIRO, ILLINOIS / SNCC; upper center in black ink: LYON–"THE MOVEMENT"; center perpendicular stamped in black ink inside rectangular border: Photography By / Danny Lyon / © 1969 MAGNUM PHOTOS / 72 West 45th Street, N.Y.C. 10036; center right stamped in black ink: THIS PRINT / IS NOT TO / BE MOUNTED / OR AIRBRUSHED; center left in graphite: 08; center right crossed out: 58744; center right: 62548; lower left stamped in black ink inside rectangular border: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK. / [line] / LOG REF: [line] / TO BE RETURNED.; graphite annotations: #146 5816; lower right in red pencil reversed, circled in green pencil: can be / cropped; bottom left perpendicular in green pencil circled: 49; lower right perpendicular circled: 49

Wikidata ID

Q64145964

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