At the Coal Breast, Coaldale, Pennsylvania
1950, printed 1984
Artist, American, 1921 - 2002
George Harvan
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.1 × 34 cm (9 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
sheet: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.30.76
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
George Harvan, Lansford, PA; Paine Webber & Co., New York, 19 May 1998; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, lower right in black ink on applied label: George Harvan; lower right printed in black ink on applied label: At the Coal Breast / A miner and his buddy work the Mammoth / Vein on the sixth level of the No. 8 / Colliery, Coaldale, PA. / Negative made - 1950 Print - 1984 / George Harvan; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 044872 / PW 7204