A mother feeds her infant in its peasant cradle, in tent camp of refugees at Ioannina, Greece, c. 1954

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 22.6 × 19 cm (8 7/8 × 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ben Shneiderman)

Accession Number

2015.19.4975

Artists / Makers

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

Magnum Photos (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top left corner in black ink: 32C; top right corner boxed in and crossed out: [underlined: Children] / CHIM's Greek / children; upper center, typed in black ink on white paper: EUROPE'S CHILDREN/Greece REFUGEES / 2-672: a mother feeds her infant in its peasant / cradle, in tent camp of refugees at Ioannina.; center left stamped in black ink inside rectangle, reversed: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK. / [line] / LOG REF: [graphite annotation along line: 6700] [crossed out in graphite: 4177] / TO BE RETURNED; vertical along center right edge stamped in black ink: THIS PRINT / IS NOT TO / BE MOUNTED / OR AIRBRUSHED; lower center stamped in blue ink inside rectangle: PLEASE CREDIT / [line] / DAVID SEYMOUR-MAGNUM / [line] / MAGNUM PHOTOS INC. / 55 West 8th Street / New York 11, N.Y.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: [Adaks?]; lower right stamped in black ink: GREECE / HISTORICAL; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2003.44.23

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Shneiderman, Ben