Untitled (Playground) from the Playground Series

c. 1965

Louis Draper

Associated Names
Louis Draper

Artist, American, 1935 - 2002

This is a photograph of a hopscotch game and a puddle with light reflecting from it. The image features a hopscotch grid painted on the ground with numbers indicated within the squares. Adjacent to the hopscotch pattern is a large puddle occupying lower portion of the image, which reflects a bright light source within it. The surface of the water creates textured reflections, and the surrounding ground appears somewhat rough or gravelly. The composition combines elements of urban childhood games and natural impermanence.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet/mount: 25.7 × 19.1 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.70.3

  • Series Title

    Playground

  • Copyright

    © Draper Preservation Trust, Nell D. Winston, Trustee

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Louis Draper, New York; The Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust, New York; (Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, PA); NGA purchase (through Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York), 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in black ink crossed out: 11-9 PLAYGROUND; top center in graphite: 1; upper left in black ink: # 9 [crossed out] 130 PLAYGROUND; upper right stamped in black ink: Photograph / By / LOUIS DRAPER; by unknown hand, upper right in black ink: 13 PUTNAM AVE / PO BOX 212 / BROOKLYN 11238, N.Y.; center in black ink crossed out: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / LOUIS DRAPER / 20 E. 127TH ST / NY 10035, N.Y.; lower center Louis Draper Estate stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite circled: 45; bottom left in graphite: LDR-00120-SP; bottom center: DR0197.00; bottom right: [22/43]

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