First Day of Spring
1957–1958
Artist, American, 1918 - 1978

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 34.5 × 22.8 cm (13 9/16 × 9 in.)
mount: 40.2 × 28.7 cm (15 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2022.154.24
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of Robert B. Menschel, New York; gift to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, bottom right impressed with graphite pencil: W. Eugene Smith; on verso, by artist, upper right in graphite: First Day of Spring / "As From My Window / I Sometimes Glance"; by unknown hand, top center circled: 48; upper center artist stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite: E56 / R154; center right artist stamp three times in black ink; by unknown hand, lower center in grease pencil: Black Savage Bound [underlined] / note cropping / 16 x 20 [underlined]