Evacuation of children from the civil war areas, Greece, 1948

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 19 × 19.3 cm (7 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ben Shneiderman)

Accession Number

2015.19.4977

Artists / Makers

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

Magnum Photos (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, across top in red ink: INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN, SEYMOUR; top right in graphite underlined, crossed out in red ink: Children; top right stamped in blue ink: #43; upper center stamped in black ink inside rectangle: PLEASE CREDIT / [line] / DAVID SEYMOUR - MAGNUM / [line] / MAGNUM PHOTOS INC. / 22 Rue de Pontoise / PARIS 5e; upper center stamped in blue ink: MAGNUM PHOTOS INC. / 55 West 45th Street / New York 19, N. Y.; center in blue pencil circled: 35; center in graphite: 0020412; lower center stamped in black ink inside rectangle: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK. / [line] / LOG REF. [annotation in graphite along line: 24843] / TO BE RETURNED.; bottom left in graphite: Collection E. Shneiderman; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 2003.44.25

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