Gambling Woman, Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico
December 1949
Artist, American, 1912 - 2006
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 40.5 × 36.51 cm (15 15/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.4609
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gordon Parks, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1997
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 10, 1997 – January 11, 1998
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top center in black ink: No 83 526 - 62 / GORDON PARKS / Woman at Roulette Wheel; by LIFE, center in graphite: 31054 / [?]; by The American Federation of Arts, center typed on sticky label: exhibition title: Idea[?] Images ex. number: 63-8 / title of work: WOMAN AT ROULETTE WHEEL artist: Gordon Parks / lender: Gordon Parks cat. number: 83 / circulation dates: December 1962 - February 1965 / THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS 41 East 65 Street, New York 21; center on red sticker: IN THE EVENT OF DAMAGE / DO NOT TOUCH / OR REPAIR / WITHOUT PERMISSION OF / THE REGISTRAR / THE AMERICAN FEDERATION / OF ARTS; center bottom on red sticker: PLEXIGLAS / Do Not Tape; by unknown hand, center right on sticker: DO NOT HANG / IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT / OR OVER / HEATING VENT; center right perpendicular in blue pen: 5; center in graphite under sticker cursive: Puerto Rico; center in graphite circled scribbled out in black ink: 36; by unknown hand, center right on tape in graphite: 16 to 7 3/4; center right on tape in black pen underlined: R49; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: CGA#066 [exhibition number for Half Past Autumn]
Wikidata ID
Q64154414