Boy in Print Shirt
1978
Roy DeCarava
Artist, American, 1919 - 2009
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company)
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Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 33.02 cm (9 1/4 × 13 in.)
sheet: 27.94 × 35.56 cm (11 × 14 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.4269
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through the Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1979
American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 13 – December 2, 1979, organized by the Bell System. Travelled until April 1982.
2002
Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 10 – February 25, 2002
2003
Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 1 – April 7, 2003
2025
The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025
Bibliography
1979
Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 76, no. 96.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right below image in gray ink: DECARAVA '78; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: REPRO / AT+T; bottom center: 78611 #5; bottom right: 98B; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1982.3.21
Wikidata ID
Q64170102