Untitled

1970s

Leon Levinstein

Associated Names
Leon Levinstein

Artist, American, 1910 - 1988

This is a photograph of a figure walking on a sidewalk. The image captures the back view of a person wearing a black and white horizontally striped shirt and vertically striped pants in contrasting shades. The ground is a simple, textured concrete sidewalk bordered by a rough pavement edge. The composition focuses on the juxtaposition of patterns in the clothing. The photograph is black and white. The photo’s perspective is angled downward, highlighting the movement and direction of the person.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 34.61 × 26.67 cm (13 5/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.153.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leon Levinstein Estate, New York; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2004; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, lower right, artist stamp in black ink: LEON LEVINSTEIN; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: B-6 / Obsession 12/00 - 0/01

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