Title from caption on object: “Chinese Child Holding an Empty Rice Bowl...”
May 1946
Artist, American, born New Zealand, 1916 - 2004
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18 × 18.1 cm (7 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
sheet: 18.6 × 20.5 cm (7 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.375
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: met / pix; upper center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: TU AUG 25 1959; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: In response to Russian objections, this photograph of a / Chinese child holding an empty rice bowl was removed / by United States officials from the American exhibition / in Moscow. It was taken by Life magazine photographer / George Silk in Hunan province in 1946 and is part of / Edward Steichen’s “Family of Man” display. —AP Wirephoto; by unknown hand, center in graphite: (China - People of - Children); by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 30409; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink