Pedestrians
1921
Artist, American, 1884 - 1962
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on brown wove paper on paperboard
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Credit Line
The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography and The Amy Rose Silverman Fund
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 22 x 17.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
mount: 22.3 x 18 cm (8 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
mount: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.) -
Accession
2003.11.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Elsa Naess, San Francisco, CA; Private collection, Dartmouth, NH, by late 1960s; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1998, no. 122; (Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York, NY); NGA purchase, 2003.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
Bibliography
1982
The Archive 16 (June 1982), pl. 6.
Inscriptions
all on mount in graphite: lower right under image: Johan Hagemeyer (underlined); lower left: "Pedestrians"--; center verso: Summer of 1927 / in San Francisco-- / For Elsa-- / Johan (underlined)
Wikidata ID
Q64155908