Children's printing plant at Children's Republic, Budapest, Hungary
1948
David Seymour (Chim)
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: 19.5 × 19.3 cm (7 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 25.72 × 20.32 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.4971
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David Seymour/Magnum Photos Inc., New York; Eileen Shneiderman, sister of the artist, 1956; Ben Shneiderman, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
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
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in blue ink underlined: SEYMOUR / STORY #42 / CHILDREN AT WORK / HUNGARY; top left: Negs at UNESCO, PARIS; top right in graphite: [underlined twice in black ink: Hungary]: Seym. children; upper right stamped in black ink: HISTORICAL / CHILDREN; upper right stamped in black ink inside rectangle: DAVID SEYMOUR-MAGNUM Photos; upper center in graphite: 4-126; center in green ink on diagonal: 115; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2003.44.16; by unknown hand, bottom right corner: PD 421
Wikidata ID
Q64146124