Xu Guangping and a Model Worker
1956, printed 2021
Niu Weiyu
Artist, Chinese, 1927 - 2020
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 45.7 × 45.4 cm (18 × 17 7/8 in.)
sheet: 60.9 × 50.5 cm (24 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2022.15.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
GAO Chu, Director, Social Archive of Chinese Photography, Zhejiang Province, China; gift to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
The New Woman Behind the Camera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
by Gao Chu, lower left below image in graphite: 3/25; lower center: Xu Guangping and model worker, 1956; lower right: 牛畏予作品 [Niu Weiyu work] 高初印放 / 2021 [Gao Chu print and enlarge / 2021]