The White Fence
1916, printed 1920s
Artist, American, 1890 - 1976
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27.5 × 34.6 cm (10 13/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
sheet: 27.9 × 35.2 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1990.44.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, Millerton, NY; Southwestern Bell Corporation, St. Louis, MO; gift to NGA, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1990
Greenough 1990, p. 157, illus. pp. 26-27.
Paul Strand: An American Vision, National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Saint Louis Art Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990 - 1992, unnumbered catalogue.
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, no. 81.
Bibliography
1990
Greenough 1990, p. 157, illus. pp. 26-27.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: pp. 294-299, illus. p. 295.
Gingold, Diane J., and Elizabeth A.C. Weil. The Corporate Patron. New York, 1991: 176, repro.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 81.
Inscriptions
on mount, lower left in blue ink: Paul Strand; by Hazel Strand, center verso in graphite: The White Fence / Port Kent, New York 1916 / Paul Strand H.S.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: MEH.190; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 2 cykora ~ / 8 / 120 + 103; by Hazel Strand, center verso in graphite: no longer available
Wikidata ID
Q64158612