Mother and Child on Stoop, 1978

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 25.08 × 33.02 cm (9 7/8 × 13 in.)

sheet: 27.94 × 35.24 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.19.4268

Artists / Makers

Roy DeCarava (artist) American, 1919 - 2009

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right below image in gray ink: DECARAVA 78; by unknown hand, top center reversed in graphite: 7863 #28; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1982.3.20

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

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.

2002: Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 10 – February 25, 2002

Bibliography

1979: Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 75, no. 95.