Members of the Primitive Baptist Church in Moorehead, Kentucky, attending a creek baptizing by submersion
August 1940
Artist, American, 1910 - 1990

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.3 × 24.4 cm (7 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2023.30.165
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 9 February 1996; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, across top printed in black ink: Members of the Primitive Baptist Church in Moorehead, Kentucky, attending a creek baptizing by / submersion. Aug. 1940; upper left FSA stamp in black ink; upper right FSA credit stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite inverted: 53314D; bottom right: 001014