Models wearing suits by Carolyn Schnurer

1945-1946

Genevieve Naylor

Associated Names
Genevieve Naylor

Artist, American, 1915 - 1989

The image depicts two women on a sandy beach. One woman is standing confidently near a rock formation, while the other is kneeling and smiling. The women are wearing rompers and the background includes the ocean and rocky formations under a bright sky with fluffy clouds.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Peter Reznikoff

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.4 × 25.2 cm (10 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
    framed: 58.42 × 43.18 cm (23 × 17 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.137.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Genevieve Naylor, New York; by descent to artist's son, Peter Reznikoff, New York, 1989; gift to NGA (through Staley-Wise Gallery, New York), 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • The New Woman Behind the Camera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022, no. 241.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right of mount in graphite: Genevieve Naylor - '44

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