City Window Sign, Spanish Harlem, New York
1948
Artist, American, 1912 - 1995
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the Polaroid Corporation)
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Dimensions
image/sheet/mount: 23.5 × 19.05 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.4313
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Godfrey Frankel, Silver Spring, MD; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, (through the Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1983; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Framed: Street Photography from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3 – April 17, 2011
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, vertical along center left in graphite: Godfrey Frankel / Spanish Harlem, New York / City Window Sign / 1948.; center left: g; center left edge in blue ink: Window, Spanish Harlem. / NYC; center right: Cleveland. / Godf[rey Fran]kel; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 8; top right in red ink: IV 7; upper center stamped in purple ink and crossed out in graphite: GODFREY FRANKEL / 212 WEST 22nd STREET / NEW YORK CITY; center left stamped in purple ink: Please [cut off]; center stamped in purple ink with address crossed out in blue ink: Godfrey Frankel / 12800 Fairhill Rd. / Shaker Heights 20, O. / GArfield 1-4360; lower right in graphite: [cut off] .37; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1983.69
Wikidata ID
Q64154321