Title from caption on object: “Keeping Fit While Living in a Fallout Shelter...”

March 11, 1960

Larry Schreiber

Artist, American, 1914 - 2005

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.2 × 24.5 cm (7 9/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.405

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Henry Yee, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in pink ink circled and perpendicular: Bomb Shelters- Equipment; upper center stamped in blue ink: LARRY SCHREIBER / MAR 11 1960; center left stamped in blue ink: ARTISTS / 1960 MAR AM 7:53; center left: ENGRAVING 1960 MAR 13 AM 8:18; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / KEEPING FIT while living in a fallout / shelter, Clara Byers, 1430 Spruce Pl., rides / an exercise machine. The shelter was put / up as the civil defense exhibit at the / Builders show in the Minneapolis audi- / torium. Cost of a 16x15 1/2- foot shelter like / this runs between $350 and $500 or, on a / do-it-yourself basis, around $150. The / shelter utilizes existing basement walls. / It also can be used in peaceful times as / an extra bedroom, playroom, amusement / room or den.; lower right stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: S MAR 12 1960 2

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