Car Pulled Out of the Washington Channel, Seventh Street Wharf, Washington, D.C.

February 15, 1954

Arthur Ellis

Associated Names
Arthur Ellis

Artist, American, 1912 - 1989

This is a photograph of a car being recovered from a body of water. The image shows the front end of a car being hoisted out of the water at night. The vehicle is suspended vertically, with its front bumper submerged and its roof wet. A group of uniformed individuals stands on a dock or platform watching the operation, and nearby, the machinery used to lift the vehicle is partially visible.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frederica Ellis, wife of the artist, Washington, DC; Debra Weingarten Jacobs, niece of the artist, North Bethesda, MD, 2001; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005; acquired by NGA, 2015.

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Exhibition History

2003

  • Front Page: The Photographs of Arthur Ellis, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 2 – August 14, 2003

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in blue ink: Men driving off the Seventh Street wharves; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 2005.010.044

Wikidata ID

Q64144988

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