Sun and Shade, 1952

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 32.7 × 24.45 cm (12 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 35.24 × 26.99 cm (13 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
mount: 46.36 × 36.2 cm (18 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joshua P. Smith)

Accession Number

2015.19.4297

Artists / Makers

Roy DeCarava (artist) American, 1919 - 2009

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right below image in graphite: ROY DECARAVA; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, bottom center: Roy De CARAVA / SUN and Shade; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.65

Provenance

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through the Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Smith, Joshua P.

Exhibition History

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

2011: Framed: Street Photography from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3 – April 17, 2011

Bibliography

2008: Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 104, 168.