Harlem Rooftops, 1948

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series Title

Harlem Gang Leader

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 29.21 × 49.21 cm (11 1/2 × 19 3/8 in.)

sheet: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2017.68.1

Artists / Makers

Gordon Parks (artist) American, 1912 - 2006

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: PF107112; perpendicular along top right: GP02922; center: 27655 / P1 - 1 md; bottom center: PF 107112; perpendicular along bottom right: MV3.012

Provenance

Life Magazine Archives, New York; NGA purchase (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2017.

Associated Names

Greenberg, Howard

Exhibition History

2018: Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 4, 2018–February 18, 2019; The Cleveland Museum of Art, March 23–June 9, 2019; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, August 31–December 29, 2019; Addison Gallery of American Art, February 1–April 26, 2020