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Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Paris Fashions, Bettina Graziani models Pierre Balmain dress

1951

Gordon Parks

Associated Names

Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The image shows a woman standing in a pose with one foot slightly in front of the other and arms extended outward. She has a pleasant expression with slightly arched eyebrows, closed eyes, and a smile. She is wearing a dress, long white gloves, a dark hat with a feather, and dark shoes. The background is a plain, textured surface.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)
Dimensions

image: 55.9 × 41.1 cm (22 × 16 3/16 in.)
sheet: 60.6 × 51.4 cm (23 7/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2016.117.173

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner in graphite: CGA#071

Wikidata ID

Q64154469

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