Neshoba County Fair, Near Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 34 × 23 cm (13 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran)

Accession Number

2015.19.4464

Artists / Makers

Danny Lyon (artist) American, born 1942

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: NASHOBA [sic] / Danny Lyon; by unknown hand, upper left in black ink circled: CAP 35; upper center in graphite circled: 27; upper center stamped in black ink: SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY PROJECT / [star]; center left: Credit:; center right: Danny Lyon; center: from BLACK STAR; vertical along center right edge: This is the original print / used for reproduction in / MEMORIES OF THE SOUTHERN / CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT; bottom center typed in black ink on white paper: Carnival workers, Nashoba [sic] Cy Fair near Philadelphia, Miss.; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 1994.3.4

Provenance

Danny Lyon, Clintondale, NY; Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York), 1994; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1994: Danny Lyon: Photo-Film, 1959–1990, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 5 – April 4, 1994

2003: Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 12 – August 25, 2003

2006: Sight/Insight: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 26 – October 29, 2006

Bibliography

2008: Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 106-107, 170.