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Sailing Ships at Dock, Port of Spain, Trinidad

1935

Marvin Breckinridge Patterson

Artist, American, 1905 - 2002

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, the artist)
Dimensions

image/sheet: 24.5 × 19.25 cm (9 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.4457

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1992; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

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

Inscriptions

on verso, by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 1992.8.3

Wikidata ID

Q64157819

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