Spanish Civil War, children in air-raid shelter, island of Minorca, 1937

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 14.29 × 19.37 cm (5 5/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ben Shneiderman)

Accession Number

2015.19.4960

Artists / Makers

David Seymour (artist) American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956

Magnum Photos (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: [T?] = [underlined: 745] [Nh?]; top right in graphite circled, crossed out in blue ink: 15; upper left perpendicular in blue ink circled: 7 1/2 = 5 1/2 / P. 43; upper center in graphite: copy neg #9; vertical along left center edge circled: #61; center stamped in purple ink inside rectangle: Photograph By / David Seymour - Magnum / MAGNUM PHOTOS INC. / 15 West 47th Street / New York 36, N. Y.; center right in graphite: X; across lower center, typed in black ink on white paper: B18 ( ) Spanish Civil War, children in air-raid shelter, / Island of M[i crossed out with o]norca, 1937.; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom left in graphite: 2003.44.01; by unknown hand, bottom right: Vintage / Duplicate of 468.82 / ICP-187

Provenance

David Seymour/Magnum Photos Inc., New York; Eileen Shneiderman, sister of the artist, 1956; Ben Shneiderman, nephew of the artist, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Shneiderman, Ben

Exhibition History

2006: Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 18 – June 4, 2006; Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, September 11 – December 10, 2006; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, January 20 – April 22, 2007