South Boston, 1978

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company)

Accession Number

2015.19.4281

Artists / Makers

Nicholas Nixon (artist) American, born 1947

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Nicholas Nixon; top right underlined: 4; bottom left: South Boston 1978; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.3.53

Provenance

Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Schwartz, Max B.

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.

2012: The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 9 – October 14, 2012

Bibliography

1979: Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 185, no. 260.