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P. H. Polk

The Pipe Smoker, 1932, printed 1981

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portfolio Title

P.H. Polk

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 31.9 × 22.1 cm (12 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

sheet: 35.5 × 27.2 cm (14 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2016.117.8

Artists / Makers

Prentice H. Polk (artist) American, 1898 - 1984

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right below image in black ink: P. H. Polk

Provenance

(South Light, Atlanta); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, purchase, 1981; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

2000: Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 4, 2000 – July 16, 2000

2002: Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 10 – February 25, 2002

Bibliography

1980: Polk, P.H. P.H. Polk: Photographs. Atlanta, 1980: 17.

2000: Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black. New York, 2000: 72.

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