Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in white area illegally
1960—1966
Ernest Cole
Artist, South African, 1940 - 1990
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 24.5 × 16.5 cm (9 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2022.102.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Suomen Kuvapalvelu Oy, Finland [?]. Darryl Cowherd, Washington, DC; NGA purchase, 2022.
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Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 1; center left artist stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite perpendicular: 66-3-1/3 / x; lower left Suomen Kuvapalvelu Oy stamp in green ink; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite perpendicular: 5A