Title from caption on object: "On the Thin Plastic with Which She Has Covered the Screen of Her Home Television…”

1953

American 20th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.5 × 20.7 cm (6 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.2 × 22.9 cm (7 3/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.640

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue crayon on applied paper perpendicular: 58; upper left stamped in purple ink on applied paper perpendicular: DEC 6 1953 P; upper left: ROTO; center left printed in blue ink on applied paper: RRS 91505; center printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: (THIRD IN SERIES OF THREE PHOTOS) / SEE B-21687 FOR MAIN CAPTION / WIDE WORLD PHOTOS / PLEASE CREDIT / B-21689 [by unknown hand in blue crayon: education] / SCREENED ART [crossed out in blue crayon] / On the thin plastic with which she has / covered the screen of her home television [circled in blue crayon] / set, Jennifer Thomas of Flushing, L.I., / N.Y., copies the image on the screen as / the voice of Jack Barry tells her what to / do. The character on the screen in / "Winky Dink," star of the learning-by- / doing children's program, on which Barry / is host, / --WIDE WORLD PHOTO / 9431-rw-11/4/53 [st]f-ef fs54; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 74

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