Children at play in the kindergarten of one of the model Viennese community housing centres for the working class, built in the 1920s
c. 1948
Artist, American, born Poland, 1911 - 1956
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 31 × 25.72 cm (12 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.4964
Artwork history & notes
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
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: Seymour -A / Magnum; vertical along upper left edge, crossed out: Vienna; center left perpendicular, underlined: Austria; center right stamped in green ink: 115; center right in graphite: -A; center reversed: 1-308; vertical along bottom left edge in blue ink: S-9 Austria; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2003.44.08
Wikidata ID
Q64146111